April's Affections and Intrigues: Love and Mystery Bloom
T. C. Boyle
T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of nineteen books of
fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague
(2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle
(2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), and Talk
Talk (2006). He received a Ph.D. degree in Nineteenth
Century British Literature from the University of Iowa in
1977, his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers'
Workshop in 1974, and his B.A. in English and History from
SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English
Department at the University of Southern California since
1978. His books are available in a number of foreign
languages, including German, French, Italian, Dutch,
Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese,
Danish, Swedish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Hungarian and
Bulgarian. His stories have appeared in most of the major
American magazines, including The New Yorker,
Harper's,Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The
Paris Review, GQ, Antaeus, Granta and
McSweeney's, and he has been the recipient of a
number of literary awards. He currently lives near Santa
Barbara with his wife and three children.