Lily Tuck (born October 10, 1938) is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction.
[5] She has published five other novels, two collections of short stories, as well as her biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante.
An American citizen born in Paris, Tuck now divides her time between New York City and Islesboro, Maine;[6] she has also lived in Thailand and (during her childhood) Uruguay and Peru.
I think this feeling is reflected in my characters, most of them women whose lives are changed by either a physical displacement or a loss of some kind".
Her second marriage was happier and upon the loss of her second husband, Edward, her grief was such that she was unable to write fiction and instead wrote the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante which won the Premio Elsa Morante.