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Elizabeth Tallent (born Elizabeth Ann Tallent; August 8, 1954 in Washington, D.C.) is an American fiction writer, academic, and essayist.

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Life

Tallent's short stories and essays have been published in literary magazines and journals such as The New Yorker , Esquire , Harper's Magazine , The Threepenny Review , [1] Tin House , Zyzzyva , and North American Review , and her work has been reprinted in the O. Henry Prize Stories , [2] Best American Short Stories , The Best American Essays , and Pushcart Prize collections. [3] [4]

Her memoir Scratched was released in 2020 from Harper. Mendocino Fire , her first collection of short stories in more than 20 years, was published in October 2015. [5] The 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

Short story collections

Memoir

Literary criticism

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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 [ dead link ]
  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. 1 2 "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.
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  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.
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