T. C. Boyle
Author of The Tortilla Curtain
About the Author
T. C. Boyle was born Thomas John Boyle in Peekskill, New York on December 2, 1948. He received a B.A. in English and history from SUNY Potsdam in 1968, a MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and a Ph.D. degree in nineteenth century British literature from the University of show more Iowa in 1977. He has been a member of the English department at the University of Southern California since 1978. He has written over 20 books including After the Plague, Drop City, The Inner Circle, Tooth and Claw, The Human Fly, Talk Talk, The Women, Wild Child, and When the Killing's Done. He has received numerous awards including the PEN/Faulkner Award for best novel of the year for World's End; the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story for T. C. Boyle Stories; and the Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel in France for The Tortilla Curtain. His title's Sam Miguel and The Harder They Caome made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) T. Coraghessan Boyle is the best-selling author of "T.C. Boyle Stories," "Riven Rock," "The Tortilla Curtain," "Without a Hero," "The Road to Wellville," "East Is East," "If the River Was Whiskey," "World's End" (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award), "Greasy Lake," "Budding Prospects," "Water Music," & "Descent of Man" (all available from Penguin). His fiction regularly appears in major American magazines, including "The New Yorker," "GQ," "The Paris Review," "Playboy," & "Esquire." He lives in Santa Barbara, California. (Publisher Provided) show less
Series
Works by T. C. Boyle
Tooth and Claw 7 copies
Descent of Man [short story] 7 copies
[Title missing] 3 copies
Sorry Fugu [short story] 1 copy
Mexico [New Yorker Oct 98] 1 copy
Sinking House {short story} 1 copy
Asleep at the Wheel 1 copy
Chicxulub 1 copy
Are we not men? 1 copy
“The Hit Man” 1 copy
Swept Away - short story 1 copy
Königs Erläuterungen und Materialien: Interpretation zu Boyle. The Tortilla Curtain: Lektüre- und… (2010) 1 copy
Tooth & Claw -- Short Stores 1 copy
“Top of the Food Chain” 1 copy
La Conchita 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 902 copies
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Contributor — 398 copies
McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle (2006) — Contributor — 396 copies
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduction — 376 copies
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contributor — 339 copies
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Contributor — 320 copies
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Contributor — 185 copies
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contributor — 132 copies
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other) (2001) — Contributor — 131 copies
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Contributor — 52 copies
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Contributor — 43 copies
High Infidelity: 24 Great Short Stories About Adultery by Some of Our Best Contemporary Authors (1997) — Contributor — 32 copies
It's Only Rock and Roll: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Short Stories (1998) — Contributor — 21 copies
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Contributor — 17 copies
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2009) — Contributor — 16 copies
Selected Shorts: Food Fictions (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2007) — Contributor — 11 copies
Hebbes 8 : 12 nieuwe smaakmakers voor het voorjaar 2003 — Contributor — 5 copies
The Atlantic Monthly Magazine, May 2011 Volume 307, No. 4: The Culture Issue: How Genius Works : Cover - Paul Simon (2011) — Contributor — 2 copies
Schöne Ferien — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Boyle, T. C.
- Legal name
- Boyle, Thomas Coraghessan
- Other names
- Boyle, Thomas John (birth name)
Boyle, T. Coraghessan - Birthdate
- 1948-12-02
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Peekskill, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Peekskill, New York, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Education
- State University of New York, Potsdam (BA|1968)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA|1974)
University of Iowa (Ph.D|1977) - Occupations
- novelist
short story writer
university professor - Organizations
- University of Southern California (Professor of English)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2009) - Awards and honors
- PEN/Malamud Award (1999)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2009)
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Statistics
- Works
- 98
- Also by
- 72
- Members
- 25,502
- Popularity
- #820
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 595
- ISBNs
- 754
- Languages
- 15
- Favorited
- 136
- Touchstones
- 689