TC Boyle Writer: The Tortilla Curtain is amazing.

T. Coraghessan Boyle ’68 is the author of 30 books of fiction, including, most recently, “Blue Skies” (2023), “I Walk Between the Raindrops” (2022), “Talk to Me” (2021) and “Outside Looking In” (2019). He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English and history from SUNY Potsdam in 1968, where he met his wife, Karen Kvashay ’69. Boyle went on to complete his MFA at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1974, and earned his Ph.D. in 19th century British literature from the University of Iowa in 1977. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English.  

His work has been translated into more than two dozen foreign languages, including German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Finnish, Farsi, Croatian, Turkish, Albanian, Vietnamese, Serbian and Slovene.  

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, including the PEN/Faulkner Prize for best novel of the year (“World's End,” 1988); the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story (“T.C. Boyle Stories,” 1999), and the Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel in France (“The Tortilla Curtain,” 1997). He currently lives near Santa Barbara with his wife and three children.