Editing T. C. Boyle (section)

==Early life==
T.C. Boyle was born ''Thomas John Boyle'', the son of Thomas John Boyle, a school bus driver, and his wife Rosemary Post Boyle (later Rosemary Murphy), a school secretary.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Arkawy |first=Alan |last2=Averre |first2=Burton |last3=Barth |first3=John |last4=Bascove |last5=Bellamy |first5=Joe David |last6=Borchardt |first6=Georges |last7=Bourjaily |first7=Vance |last8=Campos |first8=Pablo |last9=Carver |first9=Raymond |title=T. Coraghessan Boyle: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center |url=https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01035 |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=norman.hrc.utexas.edu}}</ref> He grew up in [[Peekskill, New York]] and changed his middle name to Coraghessan when he was 17 after an ancestor of his mother.<ref>{{cite web |title=T Coraghessan Boyle |url=http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/boyle_tc.html |access-date=2010-10-28 |publisher=Albany.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcboyle.net/bio.html|title=BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION|first=Sandye|last=Utley|website=Tcboyle.net|access-date=11 November 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021032054/http://www.tcboyle.net/bio.html|archive-date=21 October 2017}}</ref> He received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in English and History from the [[State University of New York at Potsdam]] (1968), an [[Master of Fine Arts|M.F.A.]] (1974) from the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]], and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] (1977) from the [[University of Iowa]].<ref name="USC"/><ref name="NNDB"/>