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T. C. Boyle (Thomas John Coraghessan Boyle), 1948–, American writer, b. Peekskill, N.Y., grad. State Univ. of New York (B.A. 1968), Univ. of Iowa (M.F.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1977). He published under T. Coraghessan Boyle until the mid-1990s. Influenced by such literary heroes as Evelyn Waugh, Gabriel GarcIa MArquez, and Flannery O'Connor, he has become known for his wildly imaginative, simile-rich, polysyllabic, manically jumpy, yet highly polished prose as well as for his satiric bent and hipster-tinged black humor. Boyle's settings range from the historical to the contemporary, his subject matter often edging into the quirky, strange, or bizarre. He first came to critical attention with his short stories in the mid-1970s; they have been gathered in such collections as The Descent of Man (1979), If the River Was Whiskey (1990), T. C. Boyle Stories (1998), and After the Plague (2001). He is also a prolific novelist whose books include Water Music (1981), World's End (1987), East Is East (1990), The Road to Wellville (1993; film, 1994), Riven Rock (1998), and Drop City (2003). Boyle has taught at the Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1978.
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