T.C. Boyle
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Over de Auteur
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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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Werken van T.C. Boyle
Tooth and Claw 7 exemplaren
Descent of Man [short story] 7 exemplaren
Rock and Roll Heaven: A Trio of Uncollected Stories 3 exemplaren
Sorry Fugu [short story] 1 exemplaar
Mungo among the Moors {short story} 1 exemplaar
Sinking House {short story} 1 exemplaar
Boyle T.Coraghessan (Thomas John Boyle) 1 exemplaar
Chicxulub 1 exemplaar
Are we not men? 1 exemplaar
Mexico [New Yorker Oct 98] 1 exemplaar
Asleep at the Wheel 1 exemplaar
Tooth & Claw -- Short Stores 1 exemplaar
Swept Away - short story 1 exemplaar
World's End by T. C. Boyle (1987-10-08) 1 exemplaar
“The Hit Man” 1 exemplaar
La Conchita 1 exemplaar
1990 1 exemplaar
1995 1 exemplaar
Blue Skies 1 exemplaar
“Top of the Food Chain” 1 exemplaar
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Boyle, T. Coraghessan - Geboortedatum
- 1948-12-02
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- VS
- Geboorteplaats
- Peekskill, New York, VS
- Woonplaatsen
- Peekskill, New York, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Opleiding
- State University of New York, Potsdam (BA|1968)
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA|1974)
University of Iowa (Ph.D|1977) - Beroepen
- novelist
short story writer
university professor - Organisaties
- University of Southern California (Professor of English)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2009) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- PEN/Malamud Award (1999)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2009)
Robert Kirsch Award (2014)
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Group Read, April 2015: Drop City in 1001 Books to read before you die (april 2015)
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