Tony Tulathimutte

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Tony Tulathimutte
Tulathimutte at the 2016 Texas Book Festival
Tulathimutte at the 2016 Texas Book Festival
Born (1983-09-01) September 1, 1983 (age 40)
Springfield, Massachusetts
Website
tonytula.com

Tony Tulathimutte (born September 1, 1983) is an American fiction writer. His short story "Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska" received an O. Henry Award in 2008.[1] In 2016, he published his debut novel Private Citizens, which was called "the first great millennial novel" by New York.[2]

Early life[edit]

Raised in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Tulathimutte is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and formerly worked as a writer and researcher on user experience topics.[3]

Career[edit]

Currently he is the lead instructor at CRIT, a creative writing workshop based in Brooklyn, NY.[4]

Works[edit]

Novel[edit]

  • Private Citizens (2016)

Collection[edit]

  • Rejection (2024)

Short fiction[edit]

Nonfiction[edit]

  • Remote Research (2010), co-author with Nate Bolt

Awards[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008
  2. ^ Tulathimutte, Tony (2016-02-09). Private Citizens: A Novel. William Morrow Paperbacks. ISBN 9780062399106.
  3. ^ "Tony Tulathimutte Archive". User Experience Magazine. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  4. ^ "The Instructor". CRIT. Retrieved 21 January 2022.

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