PHILIPPE TAPON
5120 S. Hyde Park Blvd., Apt. 410
Chicago, IL 60615-4244
mobile: 1 (650) 346-4536
email: ptapon@uchicago.edu
Born in 1968, in San Francisco. American and French dual citizenship. Fluent in French and Spanish.
FAMILY
my parents, Mamá y Papá, and my grandparents from Chile and France
my brother Francis, holding Flocon
EDUCATION
Baccalauréat International, French-American Intl. School, 1985
B.A., U.C. Berkeley, History and Political Science, 1990
M.Phil, Cambridge University (Hughes Hall), Political theory, 1991
D.E.A., l'Institut d'Études Politiques, Paris, History, 1994
M.D. (expected 2011), University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
PUBLICATIONS
A Parisian from Kansas (New York: Dutton, 1997). A semi-fictionalized biography of an AIDS patient.
The Mistress (New York: Dutton, 1999). A novel based on my grandfather, a Parisian gastroenterologist.
''Noise Music and Why I Like It'' (Melbourne: Meanjin, 2003)
''From a Visual Novel'' (New Hampshire: Lebanon College Press, 2006)
WORK
Junior Consultant, Andersen Consulting, London, 1991-92
Equity Analyst, Singer & Friedlander, Madrid, 1992-93
Quantitative Analyst, Tempus Fund, Paris, 1994-95
Editor, Dutton/Plume, Hillsborough, California, 1996-98
Personal Assistant, Hillsborough, California, 1998-2006
MILITARY SERVICE
Completed Airborne School, Ft. Benning, 1987
Commissioned Second Lieutenant, U.S.A.R., Berkeley R.O.T.C., 1988
Platoon Leader, 2/159 Infantry (Mech), 40th Div., 1988-90
Medical discharge (injury sustained in field), 1990
INTERESTS
