Frederic Tuten is the author of five novels, including Tintin in the New World, The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, Van Gogh’s Bad Café, Tallien: A Brief Romance, and The Green Hour, as well as a book of interwoven short stories, Self-Portraits: Fictions. He is the recipient of three Pushcart prizes and an O’Henry prize for fiction. Tuten is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.