T. C. Boyle | |
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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)[1][2] |
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,[3] 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.[1]