Lily Tuck is the author of five novels, Interviewing Matisse or The Woman Who Died Standing Up, The Woman Who Walked on Water, Siam:Or The Woman Who Shot A Man,a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, The News from Paraguay, winner of the 2004 National Book Award, and I Married You For Happiness;two collections of stories, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived and The House at Belle Fontaine;a biography, Woman of Rome, A Life of Elsa Morante.