Christopher Tilghman

(2001)
Professor
Fiction Writing

Degrees

B.A. Yale, 1968

Books

  • The Way People Run: Stories, Random House, 1999.
  • Mason's Retreat, Random House, 1996.
  • In a Father's Place: Stories, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1990.

Stories

  • "September," The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine (August 17, 2000)
  • "A Suitable Goodbye," The Yale Review (Fall, 1993)
  • "Things Left Undone," The Southern Review (Spring, 1993)
  • "Something Important," The Boston Globe Magazine (May 5, 1991)
  • "Hole in the Day," The New Yorker (November 27, 1989)
  • "Loose Reins," Sewanee Review XCVII-3 (Summer, 1989)
  • "In a Father's Place," Ploughshares 15-2 and 3
  • "On the Rivershore," Virginia Quarterly Review, 65-2 (Spring, 1989)
  • "Mary in the Mountains," Ploughshares, 14-2 and 3
  • "Norfolk, 1969," Virginia Quarterly Review, 62-2 (Spring, 1986)

Honors

  • Dictionary of Literary Biography Certificate of Merit, 1996
  • The Ingram Merrill Foundation award in fiction, 1993
  • Whiting Writer's award, 1990
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, The Emily Clark Balch Award, 1989
  • Ploughshares, The Denise and Mel Cohen Award, 1989