Agent: Joy Harris

Lynne Tillman writes novels, short stories, and essays. Her six novels include Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast In Doubt; No Lease On Life, Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award (1998), American Genius, A Comedy (2006), which The Millions cited as "one of the best books of the millennium so far,” and Men And Apparitions (2018). Her story collections are: Absence Makes The Heart (1990); The Madame Realism Complex (1992); This Is Not It (2002); Someday This Will Be Funny (2011), and The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories (2016).

Tillman’s books of nonfiction and essays are: The Broad Picture (essays, 1997);  The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965-67, with Stephen Shore’s Factory photographs (1995); Bookstore: The Life And Times Of Jeannette Watson And Books & Co. (1998). Tillman’s second book of essays What Would Lynne Tillman Do? was a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism (2014). 

Tillman’s essays and stories appear frequently in artists’ books and museum catalogues, including ones on Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Roni Horn, Joan Jonas, David Wojnarowicz and Cindy Sherman. Her purview is broad, and she has written, for example, on Gertrude Stein’s work for The NY Times Book Review; John Waters’ Role Models for Artforum, and “OJ: The Trial of the Century,” for Bookforum. 

Tillman wrote “Still Moving,” a story for Justine Kurland’s Aperture monograph, “Highway Kind;” an essay about Carroll Dunham’s paintings, “The Horse’s Eye,” in a book from the Gladstone Gallery (2016), and an essay on Raymond Pettibon’s work, “Playing Both Sides,” which was published in the New Museum catalogue for Pettibon’s first New York retrospective in February 2017.  Recently, her story “the Dead Live Longer” was published by N+1 magazine. 

Tillman received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), and a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation grant for arts writing in 2014. She lives in New York with bass player David Hofstra.