Christopher Tilghman is an American novelist and short story writer. Life He graduated from Yale University. He served three years in the Navy. He worked at a sawmill in New Hampshire, moved back to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a corporate copywriter and journalist. He edited Ploughshares. He lived with his wife and three sons in rural Massachusetts. He teaches at University of Virginia and the Napa Writers' Conference. Awards 1990 Whiting Award 1993-1994 Guggenheim Fellowship Ingram Merrill Foundation Award Works Books (reprint 1991) Thomas and Beal in the Midi. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. . Stories "Norfolk, 1969", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1986 "On the Rivershore", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1989 "Aerial Bombardment", Virginia Quarterly Review, "Writers on Writers," 2006 References External links Profile at The Whiting Foundation 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists Yale University alumni University of Virginia faculty Living people American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Virginia Year of birth missing (living people)