Lily Tuck

Born in Paris, LILY TUCK is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up ; The Woman Who Walked on Water ; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man , which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and The News from Paraguay , winner of theNational Book Award. She is also the author of the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante . Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and are collected in Limbo and Other Places I Have...See more

Born in Paris, LILY TUCK is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up ; The Woman Who Walked on Water ; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man , which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and The News from Paraguay , winner of theNational Book Award. She is also the author of the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante . Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and are collected in Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived . Lily Tuck divides her time between Maine and New York City. See less