Frank Tuohy is an accomplished prose stylist whose three collections of short stories and three novels have received critical praise in England and the United States. Having lived and taught for much of his adult life in foreign locales, Tuohy frequently chooses the lives of exiles as his subjects, setting his stories and novels in Brazil, Poland, and Japan, as well as in his native England. His fiction offers penetrating psychological insights, vivid settings, and exact--if often painful--renderings of social scenes. Reviewers have compared his traditional fictional forms and realistic technique with those of Anton Chekhov, V. S. Pritchett, William Trevor, and Elizabeth Bowen. Tuohy's stories have appeared in the Transatlantic Review, the New Yorker, Cornhill Magazine, Encounter, Nova, the Listener, the Times (London), Harper's-Queen, Voices, and London Magazine; and they have won many distinguished prizes and awards.

John Francis Tuohy was born on 2 May 1925 in Uckfield, Sussex...