Christopher Tilghman

Christopher Tilghman is an American novelist and short story writer.

He graduated from Yale University. He served three years in the Navy. He worked at a sawmill in New Hampshire, moved back to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a corporate copywriter and journalist. He edited Ploughshares. He lived with his wife and three sons in rural Massachusetts.

He teaches at University of Virginia

and the Napa Writers' Conference.

• 1990 Whiting Award
• 1993-1994 Guggenheim Fellowship
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Award

• "Christopher Tilghman". gf.org. Retrieved 19 March 2015. 

Books

• In a Father's Place. HarperPerennial. ISBN 978-0-06-097383-4.  (reprint 1991)
• Mason's Retreat. Random House. 1996. ISBN 978-0-679-42712-4. 
• The Way People Run: Stories. Random House. 1999. ISBN 978-0-679-44971-3. 
• Roads of the Heart. Random House, Inc. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8129-7431-7. 
• The Right-Hand Shore. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-0-374-20348-1. 

Stories

• "Norfolk, 1969", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1986
• "On the Rivershore", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1989
• "Aerial Bombardment", Virginia Quarterly Review, "Writers on Writers," 2006