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- ↑ "National Book Awards – 2004". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
(With blurb linked to her name and essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) - ↑ "2004 National Book Award Winner: Fiction: Lily Tuck". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- ↑ "LILY TUCK". gf.org.
- ↑ "Main(e) Point Books to Open This Summer". the American Booksellers Association. 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
- ↑ Rohter, Larry (2005-02-17). "'Paraguay' author finally goes there, finding an uproar". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- ↑ "An Interview with Lily Tuck". Book Browse. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
