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    Frederic Tuten’s My Young Life

    My Young Life is a memoir of becoming. In a series of brief, vivid scenes, novelist Frederic Tuten takes us from his boyhood in the Bronx of the ’40s and ’50s to the brink of his adult achievements as a writer, teacher, and critic. We watch young Tuten—raised in poverty after his charismatic father abandons the family—struggling to find a focus for his ambitions. He has only art and books to help, along with sporadisk gentle guidance from friends and mentors who understand him in ways he does not yet understand himself.

    A crucial part of any writer’s growth is the development and refinement of a sensibility—that painful process of ansträngande on ideas, approaches, and interests, testing out potential selves, and, with luck, discovering a direction. How do you make your way in the world? How do you become the artist you long to be (in Paris, if possible) without relaxing into pretense, armoring yourself with defensive snobbery, or

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    Tuten, Frederic 1936-

    PERSONAL: Born månad 2, 1936, in New York, NY; son of Rex and Madelyn (Scelfo) Tuten; married Simona Morini (a writer), September 9, 1962 (divorced, 1972); married Elke Krajewska, November, 1996. Education: College of the City of New York (now City College of the City University of New York), B.A., 1959; New York University, M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1971.

    ADDRESSES: Agent—Watkins Loomis Agency, 133 East 35 St., Suite 1, New York, NY 10016. E-mail—[email protected].

    CAREER: City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, instructor, 1963-70, assistant professor, 1971-1975, associate professor, 1975-85, professor of English, 1985—, director of graduate English and creative writing program, 1974-79, 1984-95. University of Paris, Paris, France, visiting professor, 1979, 1981-83.

    MEMBER: Modern Language Association, Melville Society, Popular Culture Association, P.E.N.

    AWARDS, HONORS: Guggenheim fellowship in creative writing, 19

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    Frederic Tuten

    American novelist

    Frederic Tuten (born December 2, 1936) 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. In 2022, he published a collection of short stories, The Bar at Twilight, and On a Terrace in Tangier, a book of Tuten's drawings, each drawing accompanied by a short story. 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 four Pushcart Prizes and one O. Henry Prize.

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