Elizabeth Tallent

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Elizabeth Tallent (born Elizabeth Ann Tallent; August 8, 1954 in

essayist
.

Life

Tallent's short stories and essays have been published in

Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, and Pushcart Prize collections.[3][4]

Her memoir Scratched was released in 2020 from

New York Times Book Review praised Tallent's "ability to create characters who force us to withhold judgment and leave us gasping at their absolute, solid reality."[6] Publishers Weekly called the volume "a smart, thought-provoking study of desire and disappointment." [7] Tin House described it as "driving, furious, erotic, gilded, the sentences flying at you like arrows."[8] The collection is a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.[9]

Tallent has taught literature and creative writing at the University of California, Irvine, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of California, Davis. She has been a faculty member at Stanford University since 1994, teaching both undergraduates and fellows in the Stegner Fellowship program. In 2007 she was awarded Stanford's Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, and in 2008 she received the Northern California Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa's Excellence in Teaching Award, recognizing "the extraordinary gifts, diligence, and amplitude of spirit that mark the best in teaching." In 2009 she was honored with Stanford's Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.[10]

In 2014, Tallent was the lead drafter of a letter—signed by 369 of her colleagues at Stanford—requesting that the University divest from fossil fuels.[11]

She lives in Mendocino, California with her wife.[8]

Her son Gabriel is the author of the novel My Absolute Darling (Riverhead, 2017).[12]

Works

Novels

  • Museum Pieces (Knopf, 1985)[13]

Short story collections

  • In Constant Flight (Knopf, 1983)[14]
  • Time With Children (Knopf, 1987)[15]
  • Honey (Knopf, 1993)[16]
  • Mendocino Fire (Harper, 2015)[17]

Memoir

  • Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism (Harper, 2020)[18]

Literary criticism

  • Married Men and Magic Tricks: John Updike's Erotic Heroes (Creative Arts Book Co., 1982)[19]

References

  1. ^ "Elizabeth Tallent in Threepenny".
  2. ^ "The O. Henry Prize Stories".
  3. ^ "Bio | Elizabeth Tallent". elizabethtallent.com. Archived from the original on October 21, 2015.
  4. ^ Iowa Research Online
  5. ^ "'Mendocino Fire: Stories,' by Elizabeth Tallent". October 22, 2015.
  6. ^ Martin, Valerie (November 13, 2015). "Elizabeth Tallent's 'Mendocino Fire'". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Mendocino Fire by Elizabeth Tallent. Harper, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-241034-4". October 2015.
  8. ^ a b "Tumult's Instruments: An Interview with Elizabeth Tallent | Tin House". www.tinhouse.com. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015.
  9. ^ "Congratulations, 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists!". www.penfaulkner.org. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
  10. ^ "Elizabeth Tallent | Department of English".
  11. ^ "Faculty meet with Hennessy to discuss divestment from fossil fuels". February 18, 2015.
  12. ^ "My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent review – a remarkable debut". the Guardian. August 24, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  13. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  14. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  15. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  16. ^ "Honey - Publishers Weekly". www.publishersweekly.com. September 1988. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  17. ^ "Mendocino Fire". HarperCollins. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  18. ^ "Scratched". HarperCollins. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
  19. ^ Married Men and Magic Tricks: John Updike's Erotic Heroes by Elizabeth Tallent. Creative Arts Book Co. January 1656. Retrieved November 7, 2020 – via www.amazon.com.

External links

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