Pauls Harijs Toutonghi (born 1976) Live Cargo ... by Paul Toutonghi Amazon.com Retrieved December 23, 2023. is a first-generation American fiction and non-fiction writer. He was born in Seattle, Washington, to immigrant parents. His mother emigrated from Latvia, his father emigrated from Egypt and was of Syrian descent.
His first novel, Red Weather, was published by Random House/Shaye Areheart Books in 2006. His second, Evel Knievel Days, was published by Random House/Crown in 2012.
Red Weather was widely—and favorably—reviewed. Toutonghi has published work in Sports Illustrated, The Burnside Review, Glimmer Train, The Boston Review, One Story Magazine, and The New Yorker.Could Harvesting Fog Help Solve the World’s Water Crisis? His story, "Regeneration" won a Pushcart Prize in 2000.Pauls Toutonghi, The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved December 23, 2023. His 2016 non-fiction narrative, Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home, was the source for the 2023 Netflix film, Dog Gone.
Toutonghi received his MFA in poetry from Cornell University in 2003, followed by a PhD in English Literature in 2006. After his first novel was published, he moved from Brooklyn, New York to Portland, Oregon, where he now teaches as a Professor of English at Lewis and Clark College, specializing in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing.Pauls Toutonghi Lewis & Clark College. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
Works Fiction Short stories Regeneration. The Boston Review, 2000Toutonghi, Pauls. Regeneration The Boston Review, December 1, 1999. Retrieved December 23, 2023. Homecoming. The Boston Review, 2001Toutonghi, Pauls. Homecoming The Boston Review, April 1, 2001. Retrieved December 26, 2023. Live Cargo. Livingston Press, 2003
Novels Red Weather. Random House, 2006 Evel Knievel Days. Random House, 2012 The Refugee Ocean. Simon & Schuster, 2023
Non-fiction Books Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home. Knopf, 2016
Essays 9 Sencu Iela. The Virginia Quarterly Review, 2009Toutonghi, Pauls. 9 Sencu Iela The Virginia Quarterly Review. Vol. 85 No.1, Winter 2009. Retrieved December 23, 2023. My First Early Success. The Quivering Pen, 2012 Our Father’s Body: An Egyptian refugee, the construction of whiteness, and what the U.S. census leaves out. The New Yorker, 2020Toutonghi, Pauls. Our Father’s Body The New Yorker. March 31, 2020. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
Personal life
He is married to the writer Peyton Marshall,Peyton Marshall Penguin Random House. Retrieved December 23, 2023. and is the father of twins. His sister, Annette Toutonghi, is a professional actor. His father, Joseph Toutonghi, died in December 2017.
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