T. C. Boyle

T. C. Boyle, born Thomas John Boyle in 1948 in Peekskill, New York, is an American author. He studied English and history at the State University of New York and earned a doctorate in nineteenth-century English literature from the University of Iowa in 1977. Before pursuing an academic career, he taught at a high school; until 2012, he taught creative writing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Boyle has published numerous novels and short-story collections, including World’s End, The Tortilla Curtain, San Miguel, The Light, and Blue Skies. He received the PEN/Faulkner Award for World’s End.