T.C. BOYLE is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published fifteen novels and more than one hundred short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988, for his third novel, World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger (France) for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995. His last novel, The Harder They Come, was a New York Times bestseller and won the inaugural Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award in 2016. In 2014 he won the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.
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