T. C. Boyle
Autor/a de The Tortilla Curtain
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de T. C. Boyle
Tooth and Claw 7 exemplars
Descent of Man [short story] 7 exemplars
[Title missing] 3 exemplars
Sinking House {short story} 1 exemplars
Mungo among the Moors {short story} 1 exemplars
Asleep at the Wheel 1 exemplars
Chicxulub 1 exemplars
Are we not men? 1 exemplars
Mexico [New Yorker Oct 98] 1 exemplars
Sorry Fugu [short story] 1 exemplars
Boyle T.Coraghessan (Thomas John Boyle) 1 exemplars
Swept Away - short story 1 exemplars
World's End by T. C. Boyle (1987-10-08) 1 exemplars
“The Hit Man” 1 exemplars
La Conchita 1 exemplars
“Top of the Food Chain” 1 exemplars
Tooth & Claw -- Short Stores 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 904 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Col·laborador — 398 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle (2006) — Col·laborador — 396 exemplars
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introducció — 376 exemplars
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Col·laborador — 340 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Col·laborador — 320 exemplars
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Col·laborador — 186 exemplars
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Col·laborador — 132 exemplars
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other) (2001) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Col·laborador — 53 exemplars
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
High Infidelity: 24 Great Short Stories About Adultery by Some of Our Best Contemporary Authors (1997) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
It's Only Rock and Roll: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Short Stories (1998) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2009) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Selected Shorts: Food Fictions (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2007) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Hebbes 8 : 12 nieuwe smaakmakers voor het voorjaar 2003 — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
The Atlantic Monthly Magazine, May 2011 Volume 307, No. 4: The Culture Issue: How Genius Works : Cover - Paul Simon (2011) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Schöne Ferien — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Boyle, T.C.
Boyle, Thomas Coraghessan
Boyle, T. Coraghessan - Data de naixement
- 1948-12-02
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- VS
- Lloc de naixement
- Peekskill, New York, VS
- Llocs de residència
- Peekskill, New York, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Educació
- State University of New York, Potsdam (BA|1968)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA|1974)
University of Iowa (Ph.D|1977) - Professions
- novelist
short story writer
university professor - Organitzacions
- University of Southern California (Professor of English)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2009) - Premis i honors
- PEN/Malamud Award (1999)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2009)
Membres
Converses
Group Read, April 2015: Drop City a 1001 Books to read before you die (abril 2015)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 96
- També de
- 72
- Membres
- 25,507
- Popularitat
- #820
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 595
- ISBN
- 754
- Llengües
- 15
- Preferit
- 136