CURRICULUM VITAE: T



CURRICULUM VITAE: T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE

PERSONAL: Born, Peekskill, NY. Wife: Karen. Children: Kerrie, Milo, Spencer.

TEACHING: USC, Distinguished Professor of English, 2003-present.

USC, Professor of English, 9/l/86-2003.

USC, Associate Professor of English, 9/1/82-9/1/86.

USC, Assistant Professor of English, 9/1/78-9/1/82.

Founder of Creative Writing Program, l978; Director, l978-l986.

EDUCATION: Ph.D., 1977, University of Iowa. British Literature, l800-l945.

M.F.A., l974, U. of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Fiction.

B.A., l968, SUNY Potsdam. English and History double major.

PUBLICATIONS:

Book:

--Descent of Man. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1979.

--Water Music. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, l981.

--Budding Prospects. New York: Viking, l984.

--Greasy Lake. New York: Viking, l985.

--World’s End. New York: Viking, l987.

--If the River Was Whiskey. New York: Viking, l989.

--East Is East. New York: Viking, 1990.

--The Road to Wellville. New York: Viking, l993.

--Without A Hero. New York: Viking, l994.

--The Tortilla Curtain. New York: Viking, l995.

--Riven Rock. New York: Viking, l998.

--T.C. Boyle Stories. New York: Viking, l998.

--A Friend of the Earth. New York: Viking, 2000.

--After the Plague. New York: Viking, 2001.

--Doubletakes, ed. T.C. Boyle. Boston: Wadsworth, 2003.

--Drop City. New York: Viking, 2003.

--The Inner Circle. New York: Viking, 2004.

--Tooth and Claw. New York: Viking, 2005.

--The Human Fly. New York: Viking, 2005.

--Talk Talk. New York: Viking, 2006.

--The Women. New York: Viking, 2009.

--Wild Child. New York: Viking, 2010.

--When the Killing’s Done. New York: Viking, 2011.

Periodical:

--Some 175 works of fiction in such periodicals as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper’s, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Granta, GQ, Playboy, Le Nouvel Observateur (Paris), The Daily Telegraph (London), etc.

Anthology:

--Work included in some 100 anthologies, including The Norton

Anthology of Contemporary Fiction; Best Fiction from Esquire; An Introduction to Fiction (F.X. Kennedy, Little, Brown); The Best American Short Stories, l997 and 2004; the Pushcart Prize annual volumes; the O. Henry Awards annual volumes, etc.

Foreign:

--Books translated into more than two dozen languages, including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, Czech, Serbian, Hebrew, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, Hungarian, Latvian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Farsi, Finnish, Albanian, Slovene.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

--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 Paris Review).

--National Magazine Award in Fiction, 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, Blackstone Audio.)

--Commonwealth Club of California’s Silver Medal in Literature, 76th Annual Awards, 2007.

--Evil Companions Literary Award, Denver Public Library, 2007.

--Founder’s Award, Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference, 2006.

--Best American Stories selection, 2004 (“Tooth and Claw,” from The New Yorker).

--Editors’ Choice, New York Times Book Review, one of 9 best books of

the year, 2003 (Drop City).

--Distinguished Professorship, USC, 2003.

--National Book Award Finalist, 2003 (Drop City).

--O. Henry Award, 2003 (“Swept Away,” from The New Yorker).

--The Southern California Booksellers’ Association Prize for best fiction book of the year, 2002, (After the Plague).

--O. Henry Award, 200l (“The Love of My Life,” from The New Yorker).

--The Bernard Malamud Prize in Short Fiction from the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, 1999, (T.C. Boyle Stories, the Collected Stories).

--O. Henry Award, 1999 (“The Underground Gardens,” from The New Yorker).

--Prix Médicis Étranger, Paris, for best foreign novel of the year, 1997 (The Tortilla Curtain).

--Best American Stories selection, l997 (“Killing Babies,” from The New Yorker.).

--Howard D. Vursell Memorial Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, for prose excellence, l993.

--Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree, State University of New York, l991.

--Editors’ Choice, New York Times Book Review, one of l3 best books of

the year, l989 (If the River Was Whiskey).

--PEN Center West Literary Prize, best short story collection of the year, l989 (If the River Was Whiskey).

--Prix Passion publishers’ prize, France, for best novel of the year, l989 (Water Music).

--Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Literature, best novel of the year, 57th Annual Awards, l988 (World’s End).

--O. Henry Award, 1989 (“The Ape Lady in Retirement,” from The Paris Review).

--O. Henry Award, 1988 (“Sinking House,” from The Atlantic).

--PEN/Faulkner Award, best novel of the year, l988 (World’s End).

--Guggenheim Fellowship, l988.

--Editors’ Choice, New York Times Book Review, one of l6 best books of the year, l987 (World’s End).

--Commonwealth Club of California, Silver Medal for Literature, 55th Annual Awards, l986 (Greasy Lake).

--Paris Review’s John Train Humor Prize, l984 (“The Hector Quesadilla Story”).

--National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1983.

--Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, l98l (“Mungo Among the Moors”).

--St. Lawrence Award for Fiction, best short-story collection of the year, 1980 (Descent of Man).

--National Endowment for the Arts Grant, l977.

--Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Fiction Award for the short story, 1977.

PROFESSIONAL:

--Member of Literature Panel, National Endowment for the Arts, 1986-87.

--Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2009-present.

*Please Note: All titles continuously in print since publication; all published in paperback through Penguin Books, as part of its Contemporary American Fiction Series.

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