T.C. Boyle, Author

**T.C. Boyle** is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published fourteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his novel \_World’s End\_, and the Prix Médicis étranger for \_The Tortilla Curtain\_ in 1995, as well as the 2014 Henry David Thoreau award for excellence in nature writing. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.