Lily Tuck (born October 10, 1938) is anAmerican novelist and short story writer whose novelThe News from Paraguay won the 2004National Book Award for Fiction.^[2] Her 2008 biographyWoman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante won thePremio Elsa Morante.^[3]Her novelSiam was nominated for the 2000PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.^[4] She is aGuggenheim Fellow.^[5]

She has published five other novels, two collections of short stories, as well as her biography of Italian novelistElsa Morante.

An American citizen born inParis, Tuck now divides her time betweenNew York City andIslesboro, Maine;^[6] she has also lived inThailand and (during her childhood)Uruguay andPeru.^[7] 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".^[8]

In her 2011 novel,I Married You for Happiness, Tuck explored an unhappy marriage. She explained at the time of its publication that while the book was not autobiographical it had resonance with her first marriage. She stated "In the '60s, I was married to a strong, charismatic person and he took over my life completely". Her second marriage was happier and upon the loss of her second husband, Edward, her grief was such that she was unable to write fiction and instead wrote the biographyWoman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante which won the Premio Elsa Morante.^[9]

Novels

• The Rest is Memory. New York: Liveright, 2024.ISBN 978-1324095729
• 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

• Chapter One ofThe News from ParaguayArchived 2005-09-18 at theWayback Machine.
• "Dream House," a short story by Lily Tuck.
• Author Bio, Photo, and National Book Award Acceptance Speech.
• National Public RadioAll Things Considered interview with Tuck (audio file).
• Charlie Rose interview with Lily Tuck and 2004 National Book Award Finalists (video file).

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