T. C. Boyle
T. C. Boyle | |
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T. C. Boyle at the Leipzig Book Fair 2009 | |
| Born | Thomas John Boyle, Jr. December 2, 1948 Peekskill, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | State University of New York at Potsdam (BA) University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) University of Iowa (PhD) |
| Period | 1975–present |
| Genre | Novels, comic novels |
| Notable awards | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 1988 |
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Thomas Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published nineteen novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.
He was previously a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.