Frederic Tuten

Fiction Writer

Watkins/Loomis Agency PO Box 20925
New York, NY 10025
Phone: 
212-532-0080

Author's Bio

Frederic Tuten has written about art, literature and film in Art Forum, The New York Times, Vogue, and the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal; was an actor in an Alain Resnais movie; taught with Paul Bowles in Morocco; co-wrote the cult-classic Possession, and along the way, earned three Pushcart Prizes, the O. Henry Prize, a PhD in literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He is the author of five novels: The Adventures of Mao on the Long March; Tintin in the New World; Tallien: A Brief Romance; Van Gogh’s Bad Café; The Green Hour; and a book of inter-related short stories: Self Portraits: Fictions.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Self Portraits: Fictions (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010)
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The Green Hour (W. W. Norton & Company, 2002)
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Van Gogh's Bad Cafe (Morrow, 1997)
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Tintin in the New World (Morrow, 1993)
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Tallien: A Brief Romance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988)
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The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (Citadel Press, 1971)
Journals:
Art Forum
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Art in America
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Fence
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Fiction
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Global City Review
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Granta
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Harper's
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New Review of Literature
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New York Times Book Review
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Paris Review
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Vogue
Prizes won: 

The O. Henry Prize 2016; Notable Mention, Best American Essays 2015; Pushcart Short Story Prize 2016; Pushcart Short Story Prize, 2015; Pushcart Short Story Prize, 2012; American Academy of Arts and Letters: Award for Distinguished Writing, 2001; John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Creative Writing; 1973-1974.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Mardi by Herman Melville, Hotels in North America by Rick Moody, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered by Elizabeth Wilson, Dating Tips for the Unemployed by Iris Smyles , Bark Tree by Raymond Queneau

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Born in: 
New York
Raised in: 
New York, NY
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Last update: Dec 10, 2016