Christopher Tilghman
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Yale University
Notable awards	Whiting Award

Christopher Tilghman is an American novelist and short story writer.

Life[edit]

He graduated from Yale University. He served three years in the Navy. He worked at a sawmill in New Hampshire, moved back to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a corporate copywriter and journalist. He edited Ploughshares.^[1] He lived with his wife and three sons in rural Massachusetts.^[2]

He teaches at the University of Virginia^[3] and the Napa Writers' Conference.^[4]

Awards[edit]

• 1990 Whiting Award
• 1993-1994 Guggenheim Fellowship^[5]
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Award

Works[edit]

Books[edit]

• In a Father's Place: Stories. HarperPerennial. ISBN 978-0-06-097383-4. (reprint 1991)
• Mason's Retreat. Random House. 1996. ISBN 978-0-679-42712-4.
• The Way People Run: Stories. Random House. 1999. ISBN 978-0-679-44971-3.
• Roads of the Heart. Random House, Inc. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8129-7431-7.
• The Right-Hand Shore. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-0-374-20348-1.
• Thomas and Beal in the Midi. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. ISBN 978-0-374-27652-2.

Stories[edit]

• "Norfolk, 1969", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1986
• "On the Rivershore", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1989
• "Aerial Bombardment", Virginia Quarterly Review, "Writers on Writers," 2006

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation