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T.C. Boyle

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T.C. Boyle is the author of six short-story collections and nine novels, including The Tortilla Curtain (soon to be a major motion picture), The Road to Wellville, and World’s End (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award). In 1999 he was the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. His stories regularly appear in the New Yorker, GQ, Esquire, and Playboy.

Series

Books:

I Walk Between the Raindrops, June 2023
Paperback / e-Book
Blue Skies, May 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
I Walk Between the Raindrops, September 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Talk to Me, June 2022
Paperback / e-Book
Talk to Me, September 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Harder They Come, April 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
T.C. Boyle Stories II, October 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
San Miguel, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
When the Killing's Done, March 2011
Hardcover
The Women, February 2009
Hardcover
Drop City, February 2004
Paperback

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Tom Coraghessan Boyle, born Thomas John Boyle on December 2, 1948 in Peekskill, NY, changed his middle name to Coraghessan at the age of 17. His mother, a secretary, and his father, a bus driver, were both Catholic, his father having been raised in a Catholic orphanage where he was educated until the 8th grade. In his essay, "This Monkey, My Back," he describes himself as being an obedient child until about the age of 15, when the influence of his more affluent, better educated friends turned him into a self-described "proto-hippie." At the age of 17 he attended SUNY Potsdam, planning to study music and to play the saxophone; however, he flunked his audition, and as a result he pursued an alternate degree instead, graduating with a BA in English and History in 1968. His talent for writing was recognized early on, but his admitted binge drinking and recreational drug use distracted him from truly embracing and developing his skill until his enrollment in the University of Iowa's MFA program.

Boyle received an MFA in Fiction in 1974 and went on to get his PhD in 18th century British Literature in 1977, also from the University of Iowa. That same year he received a Creative Writing Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1978 he began working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. He became and Associate Professor there in 1982, and in 1986 he became a Professor of English. As of now, Boyle has published 12 novels, with another that may be scheduled for release in 2011, in addition to numerous short stories. His work has been translated and sold internationally, and he has won numerous literary awards. He currently lives with his wife, Karen Kvashay, and his three children near Santa Barbara, CA.

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T. C. Boyle

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T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of nineteen books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), and Talk Talk (2006). He received a Ph.D. degree in Nineteenth Century British Literature from the University of Iowa in 1977, his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and his B.A. in English and History from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978. His books are available in a number of foreign languages, including German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian. His stories have appeared in most of the major American magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's,Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Paris Review, GQ, Antaeus, Granta and McSweeney's, and he has been the recipient of a number of literary awards. He currently lives near Santa Barbara with his wife and three children.

Series

Books:

Talk Talk, July 2006
Hardcover
After The Plague, January 2003
Trade Size (reprint)
The Tortilla Curtain, September 1996
Paperback

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Booklist , November 15, 1997, p. 523.

Entertainment Weekly , March 7, 2003, p. 74.

Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland), May 31, 2003, p. 55.

Nation , September 25, 1995, p. 326.

New Statesman , June 26, 1998, p. 56.

New York Times , December 27, 1981; May 19, 1984; September 23, 1987; September 27, 2004.

New York Times Book Review , July 30, 2006, p. 16.

Publishers Weekly , June 19, 2006, p. 24.

Time International , March 10, 2003, p. 51.

San Francisco Chronicle , March 6, 2004, p. D1.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch , March 17, 2003, p. F1.

Writer , October 1999, p. 26.