T. Coraghessan Boyle

T. Coraghessan Boyle
T. C. Boyle at the Leipzig Book Fair 2009
Born	December 2, 1948 (1948-12-02) (age 62) Peekskill, New York United States
Pen name	T.C. Boyle
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Period	1975 –
Genres	Social situations, esp in relation to baby boomers in the USA
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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.

Life

Boyle grew up in Peekskill, New York,^[2] received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Potsdam, and a M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the 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 magical 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, The Atlantic Monthly and Playboy, as well as on the radio show, Selected Shorts.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

Novels

• 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?)

Short story collections

• Descent of Man (1979)
• Greasy Lake & Other Stories (1985)
• If the River Was Whiskey (1989)
• Without a Hero (1994)
• T.C. Boyle Stories (1998) – compiles 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)

Edited anthology

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

Chronology in Boyle's works

	Time	Setting	Historical personage in the novel
World's End (1987)	Late 17th century, 1949 and 1968	Northern Westchester County near Peekskill, New York	-----
Water Music (1982)	1795	London, Scotland, and Africa (source of the Niger)	Mungo Park
The Road to Wellville (1993)	1907	Battle Creek, Michigan	John Harvey Kellogg
Riven Rock (1998)	1905–1925	Montecito, Santa Barbara County, California	Stanley McCormick, Katharine McCormick
The Women (2009)	Early 20th century up to 1930s	Wisconsin	Frank Lloyd Wright
The Inner Circle (2004)	1940s–50s	Bloomington, Indiana	Alfred Kinsey
Drop City (2003)	1970	California, Alaska	-----
Budding Prospects (1984)	1980s	California	-----
East Is East (1990)	1980s	Georgia (American South)	Hu Tu Mei
The Tortilla Curtain (1995)	1990s	Southern California	-----
Talk Talk (2006)	2000s	California and New York state	-----
When the Killing's Done (2011)	2000s, 1970s, 1940s	California (Channel Islands)	-----
A Friend of the Earth (2000)	late 1980s; 2025–2026	California, Oregon	-----

See also

• Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson

References

1. ^ "PEN / Faulkner Foundation Award For Fiction Archive". Penfaulkner.org. http://www.penfaulkner.org/award_for_fiction_archive.php. Retrieved 2010-10-28. 
2. ^ "T Coraghessan Boyle". Albany.edu. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/boyle_tc.html. Retrieved 2010-10-28. 
3. ^ "Faculty Profile > USC College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences". College.usc.edu. http://college.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003124&CFID=7385569&CFTOKEN=94630790. Retrieved 2010-10-28. 
4. ^ "storySouth Non-Fiction". Storysouth.com. http://www.storysouth.com/nonfiction/2006/08/t_coraghessan_boyle_and_surviv.html. Retrieved 2010-10-28. 
5. ^ O'Neill, Molly (1993-06-02). "AT BREAKFAST WITH - T. Coraghessan Boyle - Biting the Hand That Once Fed Battle Creek". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F0CEFDE163CF931A35755C0A965958260&ref=t_coraghessan_boyle. Retrieved 2010-10-28. 
6. ^ "Penguin Reading Guides | The Tortilla Curtain | T. C. Boyle". Us.penguingroup.com. http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/tortilla_curtain.html. Retrieved 2010-10-28. 
7. ^ "authorName:"T. Coraghessan Boyle" : Archive". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22T.%20Coraghessan%20Boyle%22. Retrieved 2010-10-28. 
8. ^ "Boyle, T. Coraghessan (Harper's Magazine)". Harpers.org. http://www.harpers.org/subjects/TCoraghessanBoyle. Retrieved 2010-10-28. 

External links

• Official website
• Elizabeth E. Adams (Summer 2000). "T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Art of Fiction No. 161". Paris Review. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/651/the-art-of-fiction-no-161-t-coraghessan-boyle. 
• "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 the Internet Movie Database
• "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
• The Bat Segundo Show (radio interviews): 2005 (50 minutes), 2006 (30 minutes), 2009 (30 minutes), 2011 (45 minutes),

Persondata
Name	Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Alternative names	Boyle, Thomas John (birth name); Boyle, Tom Coraghessan; Boyle, T. C.
Short description	Novelist, short story writer
Date of birth	December 2, 1948
Place of birth	Peekskill, New York, United States
Date of death
Place of death