Frederic Tuten is the award-winning author of five novels, including The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, The Green Hour, and Tintin in the New World, selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year, as well as a memoir, My Young Life, and a book of interwoven short stories, Self Portraits: Fictions. His stories have received three Pushcart Prizes and an O'Henry Prize for fiction. 

His latest collection of stories, The Bar at Twilight (Bellevue Literary Press), was released in May. On a Terrace in Tangier – Works on Cardboard will be published by KMEC Books and Konig Buchhandlung in July.