Christopher Tilghman

Christopher Tilghman (born 1946) is an American novelist and short story writer, raised in Boston and deeply connected to his family's farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He graduated from Yale University, served in the U.S. Navy, worked various jobs including at a sawmill and as a corporate copywriter, edited Ploughshares, and teaches at the University of Virginia. His notable works include the short story collections In a Father's Place (1990) and The Way People Run (1999), and novels such as Mason's Retreat (1996), The Right-Hand Shore (2012), and the recently completed Mason's Retreat quartet with On the Tobacco Coast; he has received the Whiting Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Ingram Merrill Foundation Award.