Christopher Tilghman

Biography

Christopher Tilghman is the author of two novels, Roads of the Heart and Mason’s Retreat, and two short story collections, The Way People Run and In a Father’s Place. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writer’s Award, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award. He is a professor at the University of Virginia.

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FICTION / Writers on Writers

Aerial Bombardment

By Christopher Tilghman
FICTION / Spring 1986

Norfolk, 1969

By Christopher Tilghman

He remembers the heat, the first summer in Norfolk, the summer of ‘69. He remembers the way it felt as it radiated from the steel decks, rising so fast that it pulled the breath out of his lungs. He remembers bringing it home on his uniform...

FICTION / Spring 1989

On the Rivershore

By Christopher Tilghman

Between the clay banks of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay there is a beach a thousand miles long. The sand is fine enough, but it is sharp with oyster shells and rough with stones the color of ox...