Frederic Tuten, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Frederic Tuten

American novelist, short story writer and essayist

Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1936

Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, United States

Profession: screenwriter, writer, author, journalist, film critic, novelist, essayist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Frederic Tuten is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.
He has written five novels – The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (1971), Tallien: A Brief Romance (1988), Tintin in the New World: A Romance (1993), Van Gogh's Bad Café (1997) and The Green Hour (2002) – as well as one book of inter-related short stories, Self-Portraits: Fictions (2010), and essays, many of the latter being about contemporary art.
His memoir My Young Life (2019) was published by Simon & Schuster.
Tuten received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction and was given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He was awarded three Pushcart Prizes and one O.
Henry Prize.