Editing T. C. Boyle (section)

== Personal life ==
Boyle is married to Karen Kvashay.  They have three children and live in [[Montecito, California|Montecito]] near [[Santa Barbara, California]].<ref name="NNDB"/> Their home was imperiled in the 2017 [[Thomas Fire]] which consumed 440 square miles and over 1,000 structures in [[Santa Barbara County, California|Santa Barbara]] and [[Ventura County, California|Ventura]] counties, killing a firefighter in the latter. The fires denuded drought-stricken hillsides of vegetation and torrential rains in January 2018 subsequently dislodged immense boulders and precipitated [[2018 Southern California mudflows|mudslides]] which destroyed over one hundred homes and killed almost two dozen of his neighbors. Over 10,000 people were evacuated from Montecito as a result of the sequence of natural disasters. Boyle extensively documented both calamities on his website, and additionally in an article for ''[[The New Yorker]]''.<ref name=mudslides>[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/after-the-mudslides-an-absence-in-montecito After the mudslides, an absence in Montecito], ''[[The New Yorker]]'', T. C. Boyle, January 22, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2018.</ref>