Editing T. C. Boyle

{{Short description|American novelist and short-story writer}}
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| caption          = T. C. Boyle at the Leipzig Book Fair 2009
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| birth_name       = Thomas John Boyle, Jr.
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1948|12|2|mf=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Peekskill, New York]], U.S.
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| occupation       = Writer
| nationality      = American
| period           = 1975–present
| genre            = Novels, comic novels
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| awards           = [[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction]], 1988
| website          = {{URL|tcboyle.com}}
| education        = [[State University of New York at Potsdam]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Iowa Writers' Workshop|University of Iowa Writers' Workshop]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]])<br>[[University of Iowa]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])<ref name="USC"/><ref name="NNDB">{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/856/000044724/|title=T. C. Boyle|publisher=[[NNDB]]}}</ref>
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'''Thomas Coraghessan Boyle''' (born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist and [[short story]] writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published nineteen novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the  [[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction|PEN/Faulkner Award]] in 1988,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.penfaulkner.org/award_for_fiction_archive.php |title=PEN / Faulkner Foundation Award For Fiction Archive |publisher=Penfaulkner.org |access-date=2010-10-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528114544/http://www.penfaulkner.org/award_for_fiction_archive.php |archive-date=2010-05-28 }}</ref> for his third novel, ''[[World's End (Boyle novel)|World's End]]'', which recounts 300 years in [[upstate New York]].

He was previously a [[Distinguished Professor]] of English at the [[University of Southern California]].<ref name="USC">{{cite web|url=http://college.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003124&CFID=7385569&CFTOKEN=94630790 |title=Faculty Profile > USC College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences |publisher=College.usc.edu |access-date=2010-10-28}}</ref>

==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"/>

==Literary characteristics==
In ''Understanding T. C. Boyle'', Paul William Gleason writes, "Boyle's stories and novels take the best elements of [[Raymond Carver|Carver]]'s minimalism, [[John Barth|Barth]]'s postmodern extravaganzas, [[Gabriel García Márquez|García Márquez]]'s [[Magic realism|magical realism]], [[Flannery O'Connor|O'Connor]]'s dark comedy and moral seriousness, and [[Charles Dickens|Dickens]]' entertaining and strange plots and brings them to bear on American life in an accessible, subversive, and inventive way."<ref>Gleason, Paul William. ''Understanding T.C. Boyle (Understanding Contemporary Literature''. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina, 2009, p. 10.</ref>

Many of Boyle's novels and short stories explore the [[baby boom generation]], its appetites, joys, and addictions. His themes, such as the often-misguided efforts of the male hero and the slick appeal of the anti-hero, appear alongside brutal satire, humor, and [[magical realism]]. His fiction also explores the ruthlessness and the unpredictability of nature and the toll human society unwittingly takes on the environment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.storysouth.com/nonfiction/2006/08/t_coraghessan_boyle_and_surviv.html |title=storySouth Non-Fiction |publisher=Storysouth.com |access-date=2010-10-28}}</ref> 

Boyle has published eleven collections of short stories, including ''Descent of Man'' (1979), ''Greasy Lake'' (1985), ''If the River Was Whiskey'' (1989), and ''Without a Hero'' (1994). His short stories frequently appear in the major American magazines, including ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22T.%20Coraghessan%20Boyle%22 |title=authorName:"T. Coraghessan Boyle" : Archive |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=2010-10-28}}</ref> ''Harper's'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harpers.org/subjects/TCoraghessanBoyle |title=Boyle, T. Coraghessan (Harper's Magazine) |publisher=Harpers.org |access-date=2010-10-28}}</ref> ''Esquire'',<ref>{{cite web |last1=BOYLE |first1=T. C. |title=WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? {{!}} Esquire {{!}} MARCH '19 |url=https://classic.esquire.com/article/2019/3/1/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it |website=Esquire – The Complete Archive |access-date=27 January 2020}}</ref> ''The Atlantic Monthly''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Boyle |first1=T. C. |title=The Silence |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/08/the-silence/308040/ |website=The Atlantic |date=13 April 2010}}</ref> and ''Playboy'',<ref>{{cite web |last1=Boyle |first1=T.C. |title=Not Me |url=https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-fiction-not-me |website=Playboy |access-date=27 January 2020}}</ref> as well as on the radio show ''[[Selected Shorts]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES WITH A.M. HOMES AND T.C. BOYLE |url=https://www.symphonyspace.org/selected-shorts/episodes/truth-and-consequences-with-a-m-homes-and-t-c-boyle |website=Symphony Space |access-date=27 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

==Influences==
Boyle has said [[Gabriel García Márquez]] is his favorite novelist. He is also a fan of [[Flannery O'Connor]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pearl |first1=Nancy |author-link1=Nancy Pearl |last2=Schwager |first2=Jeff |author-link2=Jeff Schwager |date=2020 |title=The Writer's Library}}</ref> and [[Robert Coover]].<ref>{{cite news|title=T. C. Boyle: By the Book| work=The New York Times | date=24 March 2015 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/books/review/t-c-boyle-by-the-book.html?ref=books|access-date=27 March 2015}}</ref>

== 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>

==Awards and honors==
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* Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Fiction Award for the Short Story, 1977.
* National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, 1977.
* The St. Lawrence Award for Fiction, best story collection of the year, 1980 (Descent of Man).
* The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, 1981 ("Mungo Among the Moors," excerpt from Water Music).
* National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, 1983.
* The Paris Review's John Train Humor Prize, 1984 ("The Hector Quesadilla Story").
* Commonwealth of California, Silver Medal for Literature, 55th Annual Awards, 1986 (Greasy Lake).
* Editors' Choice, New York Times Book Review, one of the 16 best books of the year, 1987 (World's End).
* Guggenheim Fellowship, 1988.
* [[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction|PEN/Faulkner Award]], best novel of the year, 1988, for World's End.
* O. Henry Award, 1988. "Sinking House," from The Atlantic Monthly.
* Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Literature, best novel of the year, 57th annual awards, 1988 (World's End).
* O. Henry Award, 1989. "The Ape Lady in Retirement," from The Paris Review.
* Prix Passion publishers' prize, France, for best novel of the year, 1989 (Water Music).
* PEN Center West Literary Prize, best short story collection of the year, 1989 (If the River Was Whiskey).
* Editors' Choice, New York Times Book Review, one of the 13 best books of the year, 1989 (If the River Was Whiskey).
* Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree, State University of New York, 1991.
* Howard D. Vursell Memorial Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, for prose excellence, 1993.
* Best American Stories selection, 1997. "Killing Babies," from The New Yorker.
* [[Prix Médicis étranger|Prix Médicis Étranger]], Paris, for the best foreign novel of the year, 1997 (The Tortilla Curtain).
* O.Henry Award, 1999. "The Underground Gardens," from The New Yorker.
* [[PEN/Malamud Award|The Bernard Malamud Prize in Short Fiction]] from the [[PEN/Faulkner Foundation]], 1999, for T.C. Boyle Stories, the Collected Stories.
* O.Henry Award, 2001.  "The Love of My Life," from The New Yorker.
* Southern California Booksellers' Association Award for best fiction title of the year, 2002, for After the Plague.
* National Book Award Finalist, Drop City, 2003.
* O. Henry Award, 2003. "Swept Away," from The New Yorker.
* Editors' Choice, New York Times Book Review, one of 9 best books of the year, 2003.
* Best American Stories selection, 2004. "Tooth and Claw," from The New Yorker.
* Founder's Award, Santa Barbara Writers' Conference, 2006.
* Evil Companions Literary Award, Denver Public Library, 2007.
* Commonwealth Club of California Silver Medal for Literature, 76th annual awards, 2007 (Talk Talk).
* Audie Prize, 2007, for best audio performance by a writer (The Tortilla Curtain).
* Ross Macdonald Award for body of work by a California writer, 2007.
* National Magazine Award, 2007 ("Wild Child," from McSweeney's).
* Best American Stories selection, 2007 ("Balto," from The Paris Review).
* Best American Stories selection, 2008 ("Admiral," from Harper's).
* Induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2009.
* [[Rea Award for the Short Story]], 2014.
* [[The Kenyon Review#Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement|Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement]], 2019.

==Bibliography==
{{Incomplete list|date=August 2016}}

===Novels===
*''[[Water Music (novel)|Water Music]]'' (1981)<!--isbn=0316104671--><ref>The Library of Congress catalog record has a 1981 copyright date, but Boyle's [http://www.tcboyle.com/page2.html?2 website] points out that the novel was released in 1982.</ref>
*''[[Budding Prospects|Budding Prospects: A Pastoral]]'' (1984)
*''[[World's End (Boyle novel)|World's End]]'' (1987)
*''[[East Is East (novel)|East Is East]]'' (1990)
*''[[The Road to Wellville]]'' (1993)
*''[[The Tortilla Curtain]]'' (1995)
*''[[Riven Rock]]'' (1998)
*''[[A Friend of the Earth]]'' (2000)
*''[[Drop City (novel)|Drop City]]'' (2003)
*''[[The Inner Circle (T. C. Boyle novel)|The Inner Circle]]'' (2004)
*''[[Talk Talk (novel)|Talk Talk]]'' (2006)
*''[[The Women (Boyle novel)|The Women]]'' (2009)
*''[[When the Killing's Done]]'' (2011)
*''San Miguel'' (2012)
*''[[The Harder They Come (novel)|The Harder They Come]]'' (2015)
*''[[The Terranauts]]'' (2016)
*''[[Outside Looking In (novel)|Outside Looking In]]'' (2019)
*''Talk to Me'' (2021)
*''Blue Skies'' (2023)

===Short fiction===
====Collections====
*''Descent of Man'' (1979)
*''[[Greasy Lake & Other Stories]]'' (1985)
*''If the River Was Whiskey'' (1989)
*''Without a Hero'' (1994)
*''T.C. Boyle Stories'' (1998), compiles four earlier volumes of short fiction plus seven previously uncollected stories
*''[[After The Plague]]'' (2001)
*''Tooth and Claw'' (2005)
*''The Human Fly'' (2005), previously published stories collected as [[young adult literature]]
*''Wild Child & Other Stories'' (2010)
*''T.C. Boyle Stories II'' (2013), compiles three volumes of short fiction (''After the Plague'', ''Tooth and Claw'', ''Wild Child'') with a new collection of 14 stories entitled "A Death in Kitchawank"
*''The Relive Box & Other Stories'' (2017)
*''I Walk Between the Raindrops'' (2022)

====List of stories====
The following list is a selection of the many short stories Boyle has written:
{|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%'
|-
!width=25%|Title
!|Year
!|First published
!|Reprinted/collected
!|Notes
|-
|"My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain"
|2010
|{{Cite magazine |last=Boyle |first=T. Coraghessan |date=January 2010 |title=My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain |url=https://harpers.org/archive/2010/01/my-pain-is-worse-than-your-pain/ |magazine=Harper's |volume=320 |issue=1916 |pages=57–64}}
|"A Death in Kitchawank" (2013)
|
|-
|"The Night of the Satellite"
|2013
|{{cite magazine |author=Boyle, T. Coraghessan |date=April 15, 2013 |title=The Night of the Satellite |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=89 |issue=9 |pages=62–69 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/15/the-night-of-the-satellite <!--access-date=2016-08-07-->}}
|"A Death in Kitchawank" (2013)
|
|-
|"Sic Transit"
|2013
|{{cite magazine |author=Boyle, T. Coraghessan |date=October 2013 |title=Sic Transit |magazine=Harper's |volume=327 |issue=1961 |pages=85–94 |url=https://harpers.org/archive/2013/10/sic-transit-2/ <!--access-date=2019-10-12-->}}
|"A Death in Kitchawank" (2013)
|
|-
|"The Relive Box"
|2014
|{{cite magazine |author=Boyle, T. Coraghessan |date=March 17, 2014 |title=The Relive Box |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=90 |issue=4 |pages=58–65 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/17/the-relive-box <!--access-date=2018-05-09-->}}
|''The Relive Box & Other Stories'' (2017)
|
|-
|"Are We Not Men?"
|2016
|{{cite magazine |author=Boyle, T. Coraghessan |date=November 7, 2016 |title=Are We Not Men? |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=92 |issue=36 |pages=56–63 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/07/are-we-not-men <!--access-date=2017-04-21-->}}
|''The Relive Box & Other Stories'' (2017)
|
|-
|"Asleep at the Wheel"
|2019
|{{cite magazine |author=Boyle, T. Coraghessan |date=February 11, 2019 |title=Asleep at the Wheel |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=94 |issue=48 |pages=54–61 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/asleep-at-the-wheel <!--access-date=2019-07-31-->}}
|''I Walk Between the Raindrops'' (2022)
|
|}

===Edited anthology===
*''DoubleTakes'' (2004, co-edited with K. Kvashay-Boyle)

===Chronology and settings===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Title
!Time
!Setting
!Historical personage in the novel
|-
|''[[World's End (1987 novel)|World's End]]'' (1987)
|Late 17th century, 1949 and 1968
|Northern [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]] near [[Peekskill, New York]]
| {{center|-----}}
|-
|''[[Water Music (novel)|Water Music]]'' (1982)
|1795
|London, Scotland, and Africa (source of the [[Niger River|Niger]])
|[[Mungo Park (explorer)|Mungo Park]]
|-
|''[[The Road to Wellville]]'' (1993)
|1907
|[[Battle Creek, Michigan]]
|[[John Harvey Kellogg]]
|-
|''[[Riven Rock]]'' (1998)
|1905–1925
|[[Montecito, California|Montecito]], [[Santa Barbara County, California]]
|Stanley McCormick, [[Katharine McCormick]]
|-
|''[[The Women (Boyle novel)|The Women]]'' (2009)
|Early 20th century up to 1930s
|[[Wisconsin]], [[Chicago]], [[Japan]]
|[[Frank Lloyd Wright]]
|-
|''[[The Inner Circle (T. C. Boyle novel)|The Inner Circle]]'' (2004)
|1940s–50s
|[[Bloomington, Indiana]]
|[[Alfred Kinsey]]
|-
|''[[Drop City (novel)|Drop City]]'' (2003)
|1970
|[[California]], [[Alaska]]
| {{center|-----}}
|-
|''[[Budding Prospects]]'' (1984)
|1980s
|California
| {{center|-----}}
|-
|''[[East Is East (novel)|East Is East]]'' (1990)
|1980s
|[[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] ([[U.S. Southern states|American South]])
|Hu Tu Mei<ref>[https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1991/10/31/haunting-legend-of-green-swamp/ Haunting Legend Of Green Swamp], ''[[Orlando Sentinel]]'', Kevin Spear, October 31, 1991. Retrieved January 24, 2018.</ref> 
|-
|''[[The Tortilla Curtain]]'' (1995)
|1990s
|[[Southern California]]
| {{center|-----}}
|-
|''[[Talk Talk (Boyle)|Talk Talk]]'' (2006)
|2000s
|California and [[New York state]]
| {{center|-----}}
|-
|''[[When the Killing's Done]]'' (2011)
|2000s, 1970s, 1940s
|California ([[Channel Islands of California|Channel Islands]])
| {{center|-----}}
|-
|''[[A Friend of the Earth]]'' (2000)
|late 1980s; 2025–2026
|[[California]], [[Oregon]]
| {{center|-----}}
|-
|''[[The Harder They Come (novel)|The Harder They Come]]'' (2015)
|2011
|[[Mendocino County, California]], including [[Fort Bragg, California|Fort Bragg]] and [[Willits, California|Willits]]
| {{center|-----}}
|}

==Adaptations==
Boyle's novel ''[[The Road to Wellville]]'' was adapted into a film in 1994, also titled ''[[The Road to Wellville (film)|The Road to Wellville]]'', by writer-director [[Alan Parker]]. It starred [[Anthony Hopkins]], [[Matthew Broderick]], [[Bridget Fonda]], [[John Cusack]], [[Dana Carvey]], and [[Colm Meaney]]. The film was not well received either critically or financially, and was considered a box-office flop<ref name="BOM">{{mojo title|roadtowellville|The Road to Wellville}}</ref> and appeared on several critics' worst-of-the-year lists.<ref>{{Rotten Tomatoes|qid=Q1999631|title=The Road to Wellville}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Travers|first=Peter|date=December 29, 1994|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/the-best-and-worst-movies-of-1994-180969/|title=The Best and Worst Movies of 1994|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=July 20, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Maslin|first=Janet|date=December 27, 1994|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/27/movies/critic-s-notebook-the-good-bad-and-in-between-in-a-year-of-surprises-on-film.html|title=CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; The Good, Bad and In-Between In a Year of Surprises on Film|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 19, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Pickle|first=Betsy|date=December 30, 1994|title=Searching for the Top 10... Whenever They May Be|newspaper=Knoxville News-Sentinel|page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Lovell|first=Glenn|date=December 25, 1994 |title=The Past Picture Show the Good, the Bad and the Ugly -- a Year Worth's of Movie Memories|newspaper=[[San Jose Mercury News]]|page=3|edition=Morning Final}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.tcboyle.com/ Official website]
* {{cite journal| url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/651/the-art-of-fiction-no-161-t-coraghessan-boyle| title=T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Art of Fiction No. 161| journal=Paris Review| date=Summer 2000| author=Elizabeth E. Adams| volume=Summer 2000| issue=155}}
*[http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum94.html "Author of Drop City talks with Robert Birnbaum"], ''identity theory'',  March 19, 2003
* [http://www.tcboyle.net/ The T. Coraghessan Boyle Research Center] (in English, French, German, and Dutch)
* {{IMDb name|id=0102339|name=T. Coraghessan Boyle}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100308082256/http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/tc-boyle/the-od-and-hepatitis-rr-or-bust "The OD & Hepatitis RR or Bust"], a short story by Boyle, at Fictionaut
*[https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/08/home/boyle.html "Featured Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle"], ''The New York Times''
* The Bat Segundo Show (radio interviews): [http://www.edrants.com/segundo/the-bat-segundo-show-10/ 2005 (50 minutes)], [http://www.edrants.com/segundo/bss-70-tc-boyle-ii/ 2006 (30 minutes)], [http://www.edrants.com/segundo/tc-boyle-iii-bss-273/ 2009 (30 minutes)], [http://www.edrants.com/segundo/tc-boyle-iv-bss-385/ 2011 (45 minutes)],

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