T.C. Boyle
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born
December 02, 1948
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male
place of birth
Peekskill, NY, The United States
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Literature & Fiction
about this author
T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, born Thomas John Boyle on December 2, 1948) is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eleven novels and more than 60 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 is married with three children. Boyle has been a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.
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 1...more
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The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle avg rating 3.67 — 4,167 ratings — published 1995 41 editions |
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Drop City by T.C. Boyle avg rating 3.73 — 2,348 ratings — published 2002 16 editions |
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The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle avg rating 3.55 — 1,073 ratings — published 1994 18 editions |
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The Inner Circle by T.C. Boyle avg rating 3.48 — 976 ratings — published 2004 17 editions |
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Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle avg rating 3.31 — 859 ratings — published 1900 18 editions |
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The Women by T.C. Boyle avg rating 3.42 — 737 ratings — published 2009 9 editions |
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Water Music by T.C. Boyle avg rating 4.14 — 504 ratings — published 1981 21 editions |
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A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle avg rating 3.61 — 574 ratings — published 1990 14 editions |
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World's End by T.C. Boyle avg rating 3.95 — 518 ratings — published 1990 18 editions |
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Stories by T.C. Boyle avg rating 4.22 — 428 ratings — published 1994 6 editions |
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TC Boyle on tour for the book "T.C. Boyle Stories"
Author appearance, November 24, 2009 08:00PM
The Actor's Gang, 9070 Venice Blvd, | Phone: 310-838-4264 | Fax: 310-838-4263, Culver City, CA, The United States
PEN CENTER USA hosts a conversation with author TC Boyle T.C. Boyle is one of t...more
Author appearance, November 24, 2009 08:00PM
The Actor's Gang, 9070 Venice Blvd, | Phone: 310-838-4264 | Fax: 310-838-4263, Culver City, CA, The United States
PEN CENTER USA hosts a conversation with author TC Boyle T.C. Boyle is one of t...more
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"But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it."
— T.C. Boyle
— T.C. Boyle
"Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your arm. Call it the impulse to make something out of nothing, call it an obsessive-compulsive disorder, call it logorrhea. Have you been in a bookstore lately? Have you seen what these authors are doing, the mountainous piles of the flakes of themselves they're leaving behind, like the neatly labeled jars of shit, piss, and toenail clippings one of John Barth's characters bequeathed to his wife, the ultimate expression of his deepest self?"
— T.C. Boyle
— T.C. Boyle
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"I've always been a quitter. I quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up my paper route, turned my back on the church, stuffed the basketball team. I dropped out of college, sidestepped the army with a 4-F on the grounds of mental instability, went back to school, made a go of it, entered a Ph.D. program in nineteenth-century British literature, sat in the front row, took notes assiduously, bought a pair of horn-rims, and quit on the eve of my comprehensive exams. I got married, separated, divorced. Quit smoking, quit jogging, quit eating red meat. I quit jobs: digging graves, pumping gas, selling insurance, showing pornographic films in an art theater in Boston. When I was nineteen I made frantic love to a pinch-faced, sack-bosomed girl I'd known from high school. She got pregnant. I quit town."
— T.C. Boyle
— T.C. Boyle
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