Lily Tuck (born October 10, 1938) is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction.[1] Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.[2] She is a Guggenheim Fellow.[3]

She has published five other novels, two collections of short stories, and a biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante.

Life

An American citizen born in Paris, Tuck now divides her time between New York City and Islesboro, Maine;[4] she has also lived in Thailand and (during her childhood) Uruguay and Peru.[5] Tuck has stated that "living in other countries has given me a different perspective as a writer. It has heightened my sense of dislocation and rootlessness. ... I think this feeling is reflected in my characters, most of them women whose lives are changed by either a physical displacement or a loss of some kind".[6]

Works

Novels

• Sisters. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0802127112
• The Double Life of Liliane. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8021-2402-9
• I Married You For Happiness. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8021-1991-9
• The News from Paraguay. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN 978-0-06-620944-9
• Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man. New York: Overlook Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-87951-723-6
• The Woman Who Walked on Water. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. ISBN 978-1-57322-583-0
• Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up. New York: Knopf, 1991. ISBN 978-0-394-58935-0

Short Stories

• Heathcliff Redux and Other Stories. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, Feb. 4, 2020. ISBN 978-0802147592
• The House at Belle Fontaine: Stories. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-80212-016-8
• Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived. New York: Harper Perennial, 2002. ISBN 978-0-06-093485-9

Biography

• Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-147256-5

References

External links

• Chapter One of The News from Paraguay.
• "Dream House," a short story by Lily Tuck.
• Author Bio, Photo, and National Book Award Acceptance Speech.
• National Public Radio All Things Considered interview with Tuck (audio file).
• Charlie Rose interview with Lily Tuck and 2004 National Book Award Finalists (video file).