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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af T.C. Boyle
Tooth and Claw 7 eksemplarer
Descent of Man [short story] 7 eksemplarer
Rock and Roll Heaven: A Trio of Uncollected Stories 3 eksemplarer
Mungo among the Moors {short story} 1 eksemplar
Sinking House {short story} 1 eksemplar
Mexico [New Yorker Oct 98] 1 eksemplar
Asleep at the Wheel 1 eksemplar
Boyle T.Coraghessan (Thomas John Boyle) 1 eksemplar
Chicxulub 1 eksemplar
Are we not men? 1 eksemplar
Un ciel si bleu 1 eksemplar
Sorry Fugu [short story] 1 eksemplar
Tooth & Claw -- Short Stores 1 eksemplar
Swept Away - short story 1 eksemplar
World's End by T. C. Boyle (1987-10-08) 1 eksemplar
“The Hit Man” 1 eksemplar
La Conchita 1 eksemplar
1990 1 eksemplar
1995 1 eksemplar
“Top of the Food Chain” 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 917 eksemplarer
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Bidragyder — 400 eksemplarer
McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle (2006) — Bidragyder — 399 eksemplarer
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduktion — 380 eksemplarer
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Bidragyder — 345 eksemplarer
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Bidragyder — 322 eksemplarer
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Bidragyder — 188 eksemplarer
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Bidragyder — 138 eksemplarer
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Bidragyder — 133 eksemplarer
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Bidragyder — 56 eksemplarer
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Bidragyder — 44 eksemplarer
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
High Infidelity: 24 Great Short Stories About Adultery by Some of Our Best Contemporary Authors (1997) — Bidragyder — 32 eksemplarer
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 (2023) — Bidragyder — 30 eksemplarer
It's Only Rock and Roll: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Short Stories (1998) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Bidragyder — 18 eksemplarer
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2009) — Bidragyder — 17 eksemplarer
Selected Shorts: Food Fictions (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2007) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Hebbes 8 : 12 nieuwe smaakmakers voor het voorjaar 2003 — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
The Atlantic Monthly Magazine, May 2011 Volume 307, No. 4: The Culture Issue: How Genius Works : Cover - Paul Simon (2011) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Schöne Ferien — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Boyle, T. Coraghessan - Fødselsdato
- 1948-12-02
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- male
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- Fødested
- Peekskill, New York, VS
- Bopæl
- Peekskill, New York, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Uddannelse
- State University of New York, Potsdam (BA|1968)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA|1974)
University of Iowa (Ph.D|1977) - Erhverv
- novelist
short story writer
university professor - Organisationer
- University of Southern California (Professor of English)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2009) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- PEN/Malamud Award (1999)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2009)
Robert Kirsch Award (2014)
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