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

Christopher Tilghman is an American novelist and short story writer.

Life

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

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

Works

Books

• 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

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