Visit this site for a comprehensive look at the famous author. Here you'll find a wide assortment of information including excerpts from Boyle's works/reader's guide, two funny cartoons about the author, a photo gallery, a "What's New" section, a message board, a page on multimedia, answers to frequently asked questions, and a page of links.

Search Beat: The Book Beat: Featured Authors: T. Coraghessan Boyle
http://bookbeat.searchbeat.com/authors/boyle.htm

Here are brief summaries of many of Boyle's works, along with a list of links to other resources on the Web. An excellent site as an introduction to the author, providing information about the style and substance of Boyle's work. A good starting point.

All About T. Coraghessan Boyle Resource Center
http://www.tcboyle.net/

This site describes itself as containing pages that "are meant to serve as a help section and resource center for the readers of T. Coraghessan Boyle's stories and books." Clicking here will reveal an in-depth and highly informative Website for advanced research on the author. Look at the weekly updates and sign the guest book while you visit.

Philadelphia CityPaper.net: Twenty Questions: T. Coraghessan Boyle
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/022698/20Q.Boyle.shtml

This interview by Justin D. Coffin reveals the true character of the author. Here you'll find a revealing and intimate look at the writer, as Boyle comments on his critics, his work, the nature of historical fiction, and many other intriguing subjects.

BIOGRAPHY
T. Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) was born Thomas John Boyle, in Peekskill, NY, and changed his middle name to Coraghessan when he was 17. He received a B.A. in English and history from SUNY Potsdam in 1968, his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and his Ph.D. degree in 19th-century British literature from the University of Iowa in 1977. He taught for four years following college graduation at his high school alma mater prior to being accepted at Iowa. Boyle served as fiction editor for the Iowa Revieww and in 1977 received a Creative Writing Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts. Boyle's novels and short stories explore his obsession with appetite, both its joyful, life-affirming dimension and the darker side, addiction. His novels include World's End (1987, winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction); The Road to Wellville (1993); and The Tortilla Curtain (1995, winner of France's Prix Medicis Etranger). Boyle is also one of America's most accomplished short story writers and has published several collectionsincluding Descent of Man (1979), Greasy Lake (1985), If the River was Whiskey (1989), and Without a Hero (1994). He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978.