Frederic Tuten
American novelist, short story writer and essayist · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1936 · age 89
Frederic Tuten is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He has written five novels - The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (1971), Tallien: A Brief Romance (1988), Tintin in the New World : A Romance (1993), Van Gogh's Bad Café (1997) and The Green Hour (2002) - as well as one book of inter-related...
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He has written five novels - The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (1971), Tallien: A Brief Romance (1988), Tintin in the New World : A Romance (1993), Van Gogh's Bad Café (1997) and The Green Hour (2002) - as well as one book of inter-related short stories, Self-Portraits: Fictions (2010), and essays, many of the latter being about contemporary art. His memoir My Young Life (2019) was published by Simon & Schuster. In 2022, he published a collection of short stories, The Bar at Twilight, and On a Terrace in Tangier, a book of Tuten's drawings, each drawing accompanied by a short story. Tuten received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction and was given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded four Pushcart Prizes and one O. Henry Prize.
