T.C. Boyle
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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 näytä lisää 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) näytä vähemmän
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Tooth and Claw 7 kappaletta
Descent of Man [short story] 7 kappaletta
Rock and Roll Heaven: A Trio of Uncollected Stories 3 kappaletta
Mungo among the Moors {short story} 1 kappale
Sinking House {short story} 1 kappale
Mexico [New Yorker Oct 98] 1 kappale
Asleep at the Wheel 1 kappale
Boyle T.Coraghessan (Thomas John Boyle) 1 kappale
Chicxulub 1 kappale
Are we not men? 1 kappale
Un ciel si bleu 1 kappale
Sorry Fugu [short story] 1 kappale
Tooth & Claw -- Short Stores 1 kappale
Swept Away - short story 1 kappale
World's End by T. C. Boyle (1987-10-08) 1 kappale
“The Hit Man” 1 kappale
La Conchita 1 kappale
1990 1 kappale
1995 1 kappale
“Top of the Food Chain” 1 kappale
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Avustaja, eräät painokset — 917 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Avustaja — 400 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle (2006) — Avustaja — 399 kappaletta
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Johdanto — 380 kappaletta
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Avustaja — 345 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Avustaja — 322 kappaletta
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Avustaja — 188 kappaletta
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Avustaja — 138 kappaletta
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Avustaja — 133 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Avustaja — 56 kappaletta
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Avustaja — 44 kappaletta
High Infidelity: 24 Great Short Stories About Adultery by Some of Our Best Contemporary Authors (1997) — Avustaja — 32 kappaletta
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 (2023) — Avustaja — 30 kappaletta
It's Only Rock and Roll: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Short Stories (1998) — Avustaja — 23 kappaletta
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Avustaja — 18 kappaletta
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2009) — Avustaja — 17 kappaletta
Selected Shorts: Food Fictions (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2007) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
Hebbes 8 : 12 nieuwe smaakmakers voor het voorjaar 2003 — Avustaja — 5 kappaletta
The Atlantic Monthly Magazine, May 2011 Volume 307, No. 4: The Culture Issue: How Genius Works : Cover - Paul Simon (2011) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
Schöne Ferien — Avustaja — 1 kappale
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- Muut nimet
- Boyle, T.C.
Boyle, Thomas Coraghessan
Boyle, T. Coraghessan - Syntymäaika
- 1948-12-02
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- VS
- Syntymäpaikka
- Peekskill, New York, VS
- Asuinpaikat
- Peekskill, New York, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Koulutus
- State University of New York, Potsdam (BA|1968)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA|1974)
University of Iowa (Ph.D|1977) - Ammatit
- novelist
short story writer
university professor - Organisaatiot
- University of Southern California (Professor of English)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2009) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- PEN/Malamud Award (1999)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2009)
Robert Kirsch Award (2014)
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Group Read, April 2015: Drop City, 1001 Books to read before you die (huhtikuu 2015)
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