Frederic Tuten

Frederic Tuten (born 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He has written five novels – The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (1971), Tallien: A Brief Romance (1988), Tintin in the New World: A Romance (1993), Van Gogh's Bad Café (1997) and The Green Hour (2002) – as well as one book of inter-related short stories, "Self-Portraits: Fictions" (2010) and essays, many of the latter being about contemporary art.