Tom coraghessan boyle biography of alberta
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Boyle, T(homas) Coraghessan 1948- (T. C. Boyle)
PERSONAL:
Middle name pronounced "kuh-ragg-issun"; born Thomas John Boyle, December 2, 1948, in Peekskill, NY; changed middle name to Coraghessan when he was seventeen; married Karen Kvashay, 1974; children: Kerrie, Milo, Spencer.
Tom coraghessan boyle biography of alberta
Education: State University of New York at Potsdam, B.A., 1968; University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, M.F.A., 1974, Ph. D., 1977.
ADDRESSES:
Office—Department of English, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089.
Agent—Georges Borchardt, 136 East 57th St., New York, NY 10022.
CAREER:
Writer. Professor of English, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1977—.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Award for fiction, 1977; National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, 1977; St.
Lawrence Prize, 1980, for Descent of Man;Aga Khan Prize, Paris Review magazine, 1981, for excerpts from Water Music; National Endowment for the Ar