Christopher Tilghman
Professor
409 Bryan Hall
Office Hours: Tues 2:00 - 4:00
Class Schedule: MW 2:00-4:30
Specialties:
Creative Writing
Degrees
B.A. Yale, 1968
Books
- Mason's Retreat: Newly Revised Edition, Picador, 2012
- The Right-Hand Shore, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012
- Roads of the Heart, Random House, 2005
- The Way People Run, Random House, 1999
- Mason's Retreat, Random House, 1996
- In a Father's Place, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990
Stories
- "Change of Address," Ploughshares, Fall 2007
- "Aerial Bombardment," Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall, 2006
- "Us in February," Meridian, Fall, 2002
- "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)
Reviews
- How Fiction Works, by James Wood. The Washington Post Book World, 27 July 2008.
- Eventide, by Kent Haruf. The Washington Post Book World, 23 May, 2004.
- The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri. The Washington Post Book World, June, 2003.
- Girl From the South, by Joanna Trollope. The Washington Post Book World, 6 June, 2002.
- Visible Spirits, by Steve Yarbrough. The Washington Post Book World, 5 July, 2001, 5.
- Furthering my Education: A memoir, by William Corbett. The Washington Post Book World, 8 June, 1997, 4.
- Fishing the Sloe-Black River, by Colum McCann. The Los Angeles Times Book Review, 13 April, 1997.
Editor
- Advisory Editor, Ploughshares
- Contributing Editor, Meridian
- Advisory Editor, The Virginia Quarterly Review
- Judge, The Atlantic Monthly Writing Contest, 2000
- Reviewer, Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA) Writing Committee, 1995-2001
- Juror, National Endowment of the Arts Literary Fellowships, 1994
- Voices from the Other Room: Ploughshares Vol. 18, No. 4(co-editor). Boston: Ploughshares, 1993.
Honors
- Dictionary of Literary Biography Certificate of Merit, 1996
- The Ingram Merrill Foundation award in fiction, 1993
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1993-1994
- Best American Short Stories, 1990, 1992, 1994
- Whiting Writer's award, 1990
- Virginia Quarterly Review, The Emily Clark Balch Award, 1989
- Ploughshares, The Denise and Mel Cohen Award, 1989