T. C. Boyle
Autor(a) de The Tortilla Curtain
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por T. C. Boyle
Descent of Man [short story] 7 exemplares
Tooth and Claw 7 exemplares
[Title missing] 3 exemplares
Rock and Roll Heaven: A Trio of Uncollected Stories 3 exemplares
Grün war die Hoffnung 2 exemplares
Mexico [New Yorker Oct 98] 1 exemplar
Mungo among the Moors {short story} 1 exemplar
Are we not men? 1 exemplar
Sinking House {short story} 1 exemplar
Chicxulub 1 exemplar
Boyle T.Coraghessan (Thomas John Boyle) 1 exemplar
Asleep at the Wheel 1 exemplar
Tooth & Claw -- Short Stores 1 exemplar
Sorry Fugu [short story] 1 exemplar
Swept Away - short story 1 exemplar
World's End by T. C. Boyle (1987-10-08) 1 exemplar
“The Hit Man” 1 exemplar
Königs Erläuterungen und Materialien: Interpretation zu Boyle. The Tortilla Curtain: Lektüre- und… (2010) 1 exemplar
La Conchita 1 exemplar
“Top of the Food Chain” 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 902 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Contribuidor — 398 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle (2006) — Contribuidor — 396 exemplares
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introdução — 376 exemplares
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 339 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Contribuidor — 320 exemplares
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Contribuidor — 186 exemplares
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuidor — 132 exemplares
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other) (2001) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
High Infidelity: 24 Great Short Stories About Adultery by Some of Our Best Contemporary Authors (1997) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
It's Only Rock and Roll: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Short Stories (1998) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2009) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Selected Shorts: Food Fictions (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2007) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Hebbes 8 : 12 nieuwe smaakmakers voor het voorjaar 2003 — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The Atlantic Monthly Magazine, May 2011 Volume 307, No. 4: The Culture Issue: How Genius Works : Cover - Paul Simon (2011) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Schöne Ferien — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Boyle, T.C.
Boyle, Thomas Coraghessan
Boyle, T. Coraghessan - Data de nascimento
- 1948-12-02
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- VS
- Local de nascimento
- Peekskill, New York, VS
- Locais de residência
- Peekskill, New York, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Educação
- State University of New York, Potsdam (BA|1968)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA|1974)
University of Iowa (Ph.D|1977) - Ocupações
- novelist
short story writer
university professor - Organizações
- University of Southern California (Professor of English)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2009) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- PEN/Malamud Award (1999)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2009)
Membros
Discussions
Group Read, April 2015: Drop City em 1001 Books to read before you die (Abril 2015)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 97
- Also by
- 72
- Membros
- 25,502
- Popularidade
- #820
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 595
- ISBN
- 754
- Línguas
- 15
- Marcado como favorito
- 136
- Pedras de toque
- 689