Thomas Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published nineteen novels and more than 150 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.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Water Music (1981)
Budding Prospects: A Pastoral (1984)
World’s End (1987)
East is East (1990)
The Road to Wellville (1993)
The Tortilla Curtain (1995)
Riven Rock (1998)
A Friend of the Earth (2000)
Drop City (2003)
The Inner Circle (2004)
Talk Talk (2006)
The Women (2009)
When the Killing’s Done (2011)
San Miguel (2012)
The Harder They Come (2015)
The Terranauts (2016)
Outside Looking In (2019)
Talk to Me (2021)
Blue Skies (2023)
Short fiction
Collections
Descent of Man (1979)
Greasy Lake & Other Stories (1985)
If the River Was Whiskey (1989)
Without a Hero (1994)
T.C. Boyle Stories (1998), compiles four earlier volumes of short fiction plus seven previously uncollected stories
After The Plague (2001)
Tooth and Claw (2005)
The Human Fly (2005), previously published stories collected as young adult literature
Wild Child & Other Stories (2010)
T.C. Boyle Stories II (2013), compiles three volumes of short fiction (After the Plague, Tooth and Claw, Wild Child) with a new collection of 14 stories entitled “A Death in Kitchawank”
The Relive Box & Other Stories (2017)
I Walk Between the Raindrops (2022)
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