| T. Coraghessan Boyle | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 2, 1948 Peekskill, New York United States |
| Pen name | T. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Peekskill is a city in Westchester County New York. It is situated on a Bay along the east side of the Hudson River. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a Pseudonym adopted by an Author or their publishers to conceal their identity C. Boyle |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Writing period | 1975 - |
| Genres | Social situations, esp in relation to USA Baby Boomers |
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Thomas John Boyle was born December 2, 1948 in Peekskill, New York. He grew up in the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in widely anthologized short story Greasy Lake). Boyle changed his middle name when he was 17 and exclusively used Coraghessan for much of his career, but now also goes by T. C. Boyle.
Boyle earned a BA in English and history from the State University of New York at Potsdam in 1968, after which he taught for four years at the high school in his home town where his mother worked as head secretary and his father as a janitor. The State University of New York at Potsdam, also known as SUNY Potsdam, is a public university located in the Village of Potsdam in St After being accepted to the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1972, Boyle served as fiction editor for the Iowa Review, and in 1977 received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1988 he received a Guggenheim. Boyle has since received many literary awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Malamud Prize, the PEN/West Literary Prize, the Commonwealth Gold Medal for Literature, the National Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Prose Excellence. His short fiction has won him six O. Henry Awards for short fiction, and multiple appearances in the Best American Short Story awards.
Boyle earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974 and his Ph. D. degree in 19th century British literature in 1977. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978, and currently lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and three children.
Many of Boyle's novels and short stories explore the Baby Boom generation, its appetites, joys, and addictions. Boyle's 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. Boyle's fiction also explores the ruthlessness and the unpredictability of nature and the toll human society unwittingly takes on the environment. Boyle's work has been compared to Mark Twain's for its mixture of humor and social exploration.
His novels include World's End (1987, winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction); The Road to Wellville (1993); and The Tortilla Curtain (1995, winner of France's Prix Medicis Etranger). Boyle is also one of America's most accomplished short story writers and has published eight collections, 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, Harper's, Esquire magazine, The Atlantic Monthly and Playboy.
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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)
Short story collections
- Descent of Man (1979)
- Greasy Lake & Other Stories (1985)
- If the River Was Whiskey (1989)
- Without a Hero (1994)
- T. Water Music is the first novel by T C Boyle, first published in 1982. The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books Budding Prospects is a 1984 novel by T C Boyle about a loser who plans to get rich by illegally growing Marijuana. The year 1984 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books East is East is a 1990 Novel by American author T Coraghessan Boyle. The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books The Road to Wellville is a 1993 Novel by American author T Coraghessan Boyle. The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books The Tortilla Curtain ( 1995) is a novel by US author TC Boyle about Middle-class values, Illegal immigration, Xenophobia The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books Riven Rock is a 1998 Novel by American author T Coraghessan Boyle. The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books T Coraghessan Boyle 's novel A Friend of the Earth ( 2000) is a story of environmental destruction The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books Drop City is a 2003 Novel by American author T Coraghessan Boyle. The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books The Inner Circle is a novel by T C Boyle first published in 2004 about the development of Sexology in the United States and The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books Talk Talk is a novel by T C Boyle first published in 2006, about a young deaf woman who becomes the victim of a credit card fraud and The year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1979 in literature involved some significant events and new books The collection reflects the fears anxieties and issues of America in the 1980’s especially in regard to the fear of a nuclear holocaust The year 1985 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1989 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books C. Boyle Stories (1998)
- After the Plague (2001)
- Tooth and Claw (2005)
- The Human Fly (2005), young adult literature)
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 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 | |
| A Friend of the Earth (2000) | late 1980s; 2025-2026 | California, Oregon |
See also
External links
- T. C. Boyle's author-run website: Includes reviews, excerpts, current events and contact info
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The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule The Southern United States &mdashcommonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South &mdashconstitutes a large distinctive The Tortilla Curtain ( 1995) is a novel by US author TC Boyle about Middle-class values, Illegal immigration, Xenophobia The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 Southern California, or So Cal, is defined as the southern portion of the U Talk Talk is a novel by T C Boyle first published in 2006, about a young deaf woman who becomes the victim of a credit card fraud and The year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous T Coraghessan Boyle 's novel A Friend of the Earth ( 2000) is a story of environmental destruction The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. 2025 ( MMXXV) will be a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian Calendar. 2026 ( MMXXVI) will be a Common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Oregon ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Amy Grossberg (born 1978 delivered a baby at a Comfort Inn in November 1996 assisted only by her then-boyfriend Brian Peterson, who later threw the baby into
- German Website about T.C. Boyle
- Interview with Boyle and critical essays about his work.
- 1985, 1987, 1990 interviews with T. Coraghessan Boyle by Don Swaim at Wired for Books
- Interview with IdentityTheory.com
- Interview with 3:AM Magazine
- T. Coraghessan Boyle at the Internet Movie Database
- 2007 Evil Companions award (photo by Don Zirulnik)
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| NAME | Boyle, T. Don Swaim (born 1936 is an American journalist and broadcaster. Wired for Books is an online educational project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University in Athens Ohio. Coraghessan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boyle, T. C. |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American author, PEN award winner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Peekskill, New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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