Lily Tuck Biography
Born in Paris, Lily Tuck is the author of Interviewing
Matisse or The Woman Who Died Standing Up (1991); The Woman Who Walked on
Water (1996); Siam or the Woman Who Shot a Man: A Novel (1999);
The News From Paraguay (2004), winner of the 2004 National Book Award; and I Married You For Happiness (2011). She is also the author of a book of short stories entitled Limbo, or Other Places I Have Lived (2002) and a biography, Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante (2002). Her short fiction has appeared in the New
Yorker, Fiction, and the Antioch Review. She divides her
time between Maine and New York City and has lived in Thailand, Uruguay and Peru.
This biography was last updated on 07/12/2011.
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