T. C. Boyle

T. Coraghessan Boyle
T. C. Boyle at the Leipzig Book Fair 2009
Pen name	T.C. Boyle
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Period	1975 –
Genre	Social situations, esp in relation to USA Baby Boomers
Website
http://www.tcboyle.com/

Tom Coraghessan Boyle (born Thomas John Boyle, also known as T.C. Boyle, born on December 2, 1948) is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the mid 1970s, he has published twelve novels and more than 100 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988,^[1] for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.

He grew up in Peekskill, New York.^[2] He graduated from State University of New York at Potsdam, with a B.A., and from University of Iowa with a M.F.A. and Ph.D. He is Distinguished Professor of English at University of Southern California.^[3]

Many of Boyle's novels and short stories explore the baby boom generation, its appetites, joys, and addictions. His themes, such as the often-misguided efforts of the male hero and the slick appeal of the anti-hero, appear alongside brutal satire, humor, and magic realism. His fiction also explores the ruthlessness and the unpredictability of nature and the toll human society unwittingly takes on the environment.^[4] His novels include World's End (1987, winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction); The Road to Wellville (1993);^[5] and The Tortilla Curtain (1995, winner of France's Prix Médicis étranger).^{[6][citation needed]}

Boyle has published eight collections of short stories, including Descent of Man (1979), Greasy Lake (1985), If the River was Whiskey (1989), and Without a Hero (1994). His short stories regularly appear in the major American magazines, including The New Yorker,^[7] Harper's,^[8] Esquire magazine, The Atlantic Monthly and Playboy, as well as on Selected Shorts, a radio show recorded live at New York's Symphony Space and broadcast on NPR.^{[citation needed]}

• Water Music (1982)
• Budding Prospects (1984)
• World's End (1987)
• East Is East (1990)
• The Road to Wellville (1993)
• The Tortilla Curtain (1995)
• Riven Rock (1998)
• A Friend of the Earth (2000)
• Drop City (2003)
• The Inner Circle (2004)
• Talk Talk (2006)
• The Women (2009)
• When the Killing's Done (2011?)
• San Miguel (TBA?)

• Descent of Man (1979)
• Greasy Lake & Other Stories (1985)
• If the River Was Whiskey (1989)
• Without a Hero (1994)
• T.C. Boyle Stories (1998) – collects the four earlier volumes of short fiction, as well as seven previously uncollected stories.
• After the Plague (2001)
• Tooth and Claw (2005)
• The Human Fly (2005) (previously published stories collected as young adult literature)
• Wild Child & Other Stories (2010)

• DoubleTakes (2004, co-edited with K. Kvashay-Boyle)

• Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson

• Official website
• Elizabeth E. Adams (Summer 2000). "T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Art of Fiction No. 161". Paris Review.
• "Author of Drop City talks with Robert Birnbaum", identity theory, March 19, 2003
• The T. Coraghessan Boyle Research Center (in English, French, German, and Dutch)
• T. Coraghessan Boyle at IMDb
• "The OD & Hepatitis RR or Bust", a short story by Boyle, at Fictionaut
• Making art in a random universe. T.C. Boyle on Bookpod
• "Featured Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle", The New York Times

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