Lily Tuck
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.[2] Her 2008 biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante won the Premio Elsa Morante.[3] Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.[4] She is a Guggenheim Fellow.[5] She has published five other novels, two collections of short stories, as well as her biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante. LifeAn American citizen born in Paris, Tuck now divides her time between New York City and Islesboro, Maine;[6] she has also lived in Thailand and (during her childhood) Uruguay and Peru.[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 biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante which won the Premio Elsa Morante.[9] WorksNovels
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