T.C. Boyle - T. Coraghessan Boyle

T. C. BOYLE is the author of twenty-two books of fiction, including, most recently, 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 received a PhD in nineteenth-century British literature from the University of Iowa in 1977, his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and his BA in English and history from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English department at the University of Southern California since 1978, where he is Distinguished Professor of English. His work has been translated into more than two dozen foreign languages, including German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Finnish, Farsi, Croatian, Turkish, Albanian, Vietnamese, Serbian, and Slovene. His stories have appeared in most of the major American magazines, including the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Paris Review, GQ, Antaeus, Granta, and McSweeney's, and he has been the recipient of a number of literary awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Prize for best novel of the year; the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story; and the Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel in France. He currently lives near Santa Barbara with his wife and three children. --Blackstone Audio