About the Author

Frederic Tuten grew up in the Bronx. At age fifteen, he dropped out of high school to become a painter and live in Paris, but that youthful dream went unrealized. He took odd jobs and studied briefly at the Arts Students League, and eventually went back to school, continuing on to earn a Ph.D. in early-nineteenth-century American literature from New York University.

He later traveled through Latin America, studying pre-Columbian art and Mexican mural painting at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), wrote about Brazilian Cinema Novo, and joined that circle of filmmakers, which included Glauber Rocha and Nelson Pereira dos Santos. Tuten finally did live in Paris, where he taught film and literature at the University of Paris 8. He acted in a short film by Alain Resnais, cowrote with the director Andrzej Żuławski the cult film Possession, and conducted summer writing workshops with Paul Bowles in Tangier.

Tuten has written essays and fiction for artists’ catalogues, including those of John Baldessari, Eric Fischl, Pierre Huyghe, Jeff Koons, Mona Kuhn, David Salle, Ross Bleckner, and Roy Lichtenstein.

He has published five novels: The Adventures of Mao on the Long March; Tallien: A Brief Romance; Tintin in the New World; Van Gogh’s Bad Café; and The Green Hour. He has also published two books of short stories, Self-Portraits: Fictions and The Bar at Twilight, and a memoir, My Young Life.

Tuten received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction and the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.

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