T. Coraghessan Boyle
American novelist and short story writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1948 · age 77
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published thirty one novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.
T. Coraghessan Boyle is read about 273 times a day, in 18 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
2017Jonathan Swift AwardAward1999PEN/Malamud AwardAward1997Prix Médicis étrangerAward1989“If you're not working, you might as well be dead.”In their wordsActs of God (1989)“His hips felt as if an army of mad acupuncturists had been driving hot needles into them.”In their wordsActs of God (1989)“The smell of the ocean was stronger now, rank and enveloping, as if the bottom of the sea had turned over and littered the shore with its dead.”In their wordsActs of God (1989)1988PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionAward1948Born2 December 1948
People around T. Coraghessan Boyle
Close ties
Also in Deutsch
Media & music
Photos 1
Awards
About this person
Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1948 · age 77
