Thomas Coraghessan Boyle has written widely read books such as World’s
End, The Tortilla Curtain, Dr. Sex, Water Music, The Road to Wellville
and—so far published only in Germany—No Way Home. His works have been
translated into two dozen languages, and some have been adapted for
film.
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T.C. Boyle was born in New York and grew up in precarious circumstances:
both of his parents, immigrants from Ireland, were alcoholics; as a
young man he struggled with drug problems himself and barely managed to
finish school. During his studies, he discovered his love of writing.
Boyle initially worked as a teacher at his former problem school in
order to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War. His first published
short story, about his experiences with heroin use, secured him a place
in the prestigious Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Among
his teachers there were John Irving and John Cheever.
Boyle earned a doctorate in nineteenth-century English literature,
although his dissertation was a collection of short stories, Descent of
Man. Shortly thereafter he received a position at the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles, where he founded the creative
writing program. He taught there until his retirement.
Since his debut novel Water Music, T.C. Boyle has published almost every
year—either a novel or a collection of short stories. He lives with his
wife Karen Kvashay in Montecito, near Santa Barbara, and has three
children.
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