T.C. Boyle

T.C. Boyle, born Thomas Coraghessan Boyle in 1948, is an American novelist and short story writer who has published over thirty novels and more than 150 short stories since the mid-1970s. World's End won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 and recounts three centuries in upstate New York. His other novels include Drop City, which follows a California commune that moves to Alaska, and The Tortilla Curtain. He was previously a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.