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Tom Coraghessan Boyle (born Thomas John Boyle; also known as T.C. Boyle; born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published fourteen novels and more than 100 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988, for his third novel, ''World's End'', which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. ==Life== Boyle grew up in Peekskill, New York. He received a B.A. in English and History from the State University of New York at Potsdam (1968), an M.F.A. (1974) from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a Ph.D. (1977) from the University of Iowa.〔〔 Many of Boyle's novels and short stories explore the baby boom generation, its appetites, joys, and addictions. His themes, such as the often-misguided efforts of the male hero and the slick appeal of the anti-hero, appear alongside brutal satire, humor, and magical realism. His fiction also explores the ruthlessness and the unpredictability of nature and the toll human society unwittingly takes on the environment. His novels include ''World's End'' (1987, winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction); ''The Road to Wellville'' (1993); and ''The Tortilla Curtain'' (1995, winner of France's Prix Médicis étranger). Boyle has published eight collections of short stories, including ''Descent of Man'' (1979), ''Greasy Lake'' (1985), ''If the River was Whiskey'' (1989), and ''Without a Hero'' (1994). His short stories regularly appear in the major American magazines, including ''The New Yorker'', ''Harper's'', ''Esquire'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'' and ''Playboy'', as well as on the radio show, ''Selected Shorts''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「T. Coraghessan Boyle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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