About TomTom holds a BA in English from UC Berkeley, an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Irvine, and has been a Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. He was raised in Santa Ana, California, and spent his summers (and later taught school) in northwest Nebraska, where much of his fiction is set. He lives with Laura and their two sons, Sam and Hank, near San Diego, California.
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Awards• The James A. Michener Award
• 3 California Book Awards • SCIBA (Southern California Independent Booksellers Award) • Finalist, National Book Award in Young People's Literature |
Other PublicationsRead Tom's short story, "Watermelon Days" in Zoetrope: All Story
• Best American Short Stories 2002 • Pushcart Prize Stories • O. Henry Prize Stories (includes "What Happened to Tully," source for the film Tully) • The Atlantic Monthly, Redbook, & Playboy |
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