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Elizabeth Tallent

Born: August 8, 1954 in Washington, DC
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Tallent graduated from Illinois State University with a BA in 1975.

Biography: Elizabeth Tallent is a novelist and short story contributor to ''Esquire'', ''Harper's'', and the ''New Yorker''. Her works have been anthologized in ''The Best American Short Stories of 1981'', ''Prize Stories 1984'', ''The O. Henry Awards'', 1984, ''The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses'', and ''Graywolf Annual''. Tallent was born in Washington, D.C. Her parents are Hugh Tallent, a chemist and Joy Redfeild Tallent, a speech therapist. The family moved frequently throughout the Midwest. Elizabeth earned her B.A. in anthropology at Illinois State University in 1975. In 1994, she was appointed director of Stanford University's Creative Writing Program. She currently resides in California.


Awards:
  • ''Illinois Author of the Year'' by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English in 1990 ''2008 Pushcart Prize for ''Tabriz''

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: tallent@stanford.edu
Website: http://english.stanford.edu/bio.php?name_id=116
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Tallent
Elizabeth Tallent on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=elizabeth+tallent


Selected Titles

Honey :
ISBN: 067975511X OCLC: 31450498

Vintage Contemporaries, New York : 1994.

  In constant flight :
ISBN: 0805001093 OCLC: 13456863

H. Holt, New York : 1987.

Married men and magic tricks :
ISBN: 0916870456 OCLC: 9080794

Creative Arts Book Co., Berkeley, CA : ©1982.

  Museum pieces :
ISBN: 0030080037 OCLC: 12421486

H. Holt, New York : 1986, ©1985.

Sudden fiction :
ISBN: 0879052481 OCLC: 13457055

G.M. Smith, Salt Lake City : ©1986.

Presents over seventy short stories five pages long or less by such American authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, and Raymond Carver, and includes authors' commentary on the genre.

  Time with children /
ISBN: 022402549X OCLC: 17259169

Cape, London : 1988.

 

 

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