17 Facts About Frederic Tuten

Frederic Tuten was born on December 2,1936 and is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.

Frederic Tuten received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction and was given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Frederic Tuten was awarded four Pushcart Prizes and one O Henry Prize.

Frederic Tuten was born in The Bronx, New York City, on December 2,1936.

Frederic Tuten is the son of a Sicilian mother and a French-Huguenot father and was raised in an impoverished but book-cultured family, in the Pelham Parkway neighborhood.

Frederic Tuten received his undergraduate degree from the City College of New York.

Frederic Tuten spent 15 years heading the graduate program in creative writing at the City College of New York, which he co-founded.

Frederic Tuten taught classes on experimental writing at The New School.

Frederic Tuten has worked as an art and film critic in various venues such as the New York Times and Artforum and often incorporates allusions to these fields in his fiction as well.

In 1962, Frederic Tuten married fellow writer Simona Morini; they divorced in 1972.

Frederic Tuten himself was actually used as a model for the drawing, which Lichtenstein altered accordingly to resemble Mao.

Frederic Tuten tells the story of Tallien's courtship and marriage to Therese, a condemned member of the French aristocracy.

When eyebrows are raised by Tallien's show of clemency, Frederic Tuten describes in minute organizational detail the sometimes-banal and sometimes-bloody bureaucratic struggle that ensues.

Tintin in the New World is perhaps Frederic Tuten's best known and most critically acclaimed work.

In 2007 Frederic Tuten was asked by literary website Smyles and Fish, along with lifelong friend Jerome Charyn, to write an essay about their former colleague and friend Donald Barthelme.

In 2010, Frederic Tuten published Self Portraits: Fictions a collection of interrelated short stories that create a portrait of Frederic Tuten's life, both real and imagined.

In 2022, Frederic Tuten released On a Terrace in Tangier, a book of drawings, each with its own short story.