Lily Tuck
<p>Born in Paris, LILY TUCK is the author of four previous novels: <em>Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up</em>; <em>The Woman Who Walked on Water</em>; <em>Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man</em>, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and <em>The News from Paraguay</em>, winner of theNational Book Award. She is also the author of the biography <em>Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante</em>. Her short stories have appeared in <em>The New Yorker</em> and are collected in <em>Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived</em>. Lily Tuck divides her time between Maine and New York City.</p>