Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Fiction Award for the Short Story, 1977.
Contacts
Literary Agent
Georges Borchardt, Georges Borchardt, Inc., 137 E. 57th St., N.Y., NY 10022.
Film Agent
Matthew Snyder, CAA, 2000 Ave.
of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 90067.
Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes.
That same year he received a Creative Writing Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1978 he began working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. Boyle Stories. New York: Viking, 1998.
A Friend of the Earth. New York: Viking, 2000.
After the Plague. New York: Viking, 2001.
Drop City.
Books
Fiction
Descent of Man. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1979.
Water Music. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1981.
Budding Prospects. New York: Viking, 1984.
Greasy Lake. New York: Viking, 1985.
World's End. New York: Viking, 1987.
If the River Was Whiskey. New York: Viking, 1989.
East Is East. New York: Viking, 1990.
The Road to Wellville. New York: Viking, 1993.
Without A Hero. New York: Viking, 1994.
The Tortilla Curtain. New York: Viking, 1995.
Riven Rock. New York: Viking, 1998.
T.C.
523. Boyle—often found under his name T Coraghessan Boyle—is almost certainly known to most readers of short fiction through his short story “Greasy Lake.” That coming-of-age story that combines humor with terror without any elements of horror is...
The Tortilla CurtainT.C. New York: Viking, 2003.
The Inner Circle.
New York: Ecco, 2015.
The Terranauts.
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, 1977.
Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree, State University of New York, 1991.
On this topic, Boyle says in a 2000 Paris Review interview: “When you’re a kid in school and you wonder, Jesus, why do I have to take trigonometry, why do I have to take this or that? Boyle & Kerrie Kvashay-Boyle. Boston: Wadsworth, 2003.
Awards and Honors
Best American Stories selection, 2020, "The Apartment."
The Jonathan Swift Prize, Zurich, 2017
Best American Stories selection, 2017, "Are We Not Men?"
The Mark Twain Voice in American Literature Award, 2016.
The Robert Kirsch Award from the L.A.
Times, 2015.
The Rea Award in the Short Story, 2014.
Best American Stories selection, 2014, "The Night of the Satellite," from The New Yorker.
The Henry David Thoreau Award for excellence in nature writing, 2013.
The Tortilla Curtain selected for Vienna's Eine Stadt, Ein Buch citywide read, 2013.
AudioFile Earphones Award for Author Narration, Wild Child and Other Stories, 2010.
Induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2009.
Best American Stories selection, 2008 ("Admiral," from Harper's).
Best American Stories selection, 2007 ("Balto," from The ParisReview).
National Magazine Award, 2007 ("Wild Child," from McSweeney's).
Ross Macdonald Award for body of work by a California writer, 2007.
Audie Prize, 2007, for best audio performance by a writer (The Tortilla Curtain).
Commonwealth Club of California Silver Medal for Literature, 76th annual awards, 2007 (Talk Talk).
Evil Companions Literary Award, Denver Public Library, 2007.
Founders Award, Santa Barbara Writers Conference, 2006.
Best American Stories selection, 2004.
Nation , September 25, 1995, p. Boyle
March 31–April 1, 2014
Bio
T.C. This novel is titled after a booklet written by C. W. Post, the founder of a cereal business that soon became one of Kellogg's biggest competitors.
Boyle's novel is set...
The Short Stories of T.C. BoyleT.C.
The Paris Review's John Train Humor Prize, 1984 ("The Hector Quesadilla Story"). 24. Boyle Stories II.
New Statesman , June 26, 1998, p. 26. Boyle Stories, 1999); and the Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel in France (The Tortilla Curtain, 1997).