T. Coraghessan 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 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 to Karen Kvashay, with whom he has three children, Kerrie, Milo, and Spencer. Boyle has been a Distinguished Professo...
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T. Coraghessan 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 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 to Karen Kvashay, with whom he has three children, Kerrie, Milo, and Spencer. 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.
Boyle was born in Peekskill, New York, the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in his 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,...
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