PEN/Faulkner Award winner to read from recent work during Sept. 11 appearance at California University of Pennsylvania
CALIFORNIA, PA. (September) — Acclaimed novelist and short story writer T.C. Boyle will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 11 in the arena of the Convocation Center at California University of Pennsylvania.
Boyle will be reading from a recent work of his fiction and responding to audience questions. Admission is free.
A reception with the author will be held from 5-7 p.m. Sept. 11 in the south wing of the Convocation Center. Cost is $50. To register, please contact Kim Vanderlaan at: vanderlaan@calu.edu.
Thomas Coraghessan (“T.C.”) Boyle has written more than a dozen novels and numerous short stories, including: The Road to Wellville, The Inner Circle, The Human Fly, Talk Talk, The Women, The Harder They Come and The Terranauts.
Boyle has received numerous awards and honors, highlighted by the PEN/Faulkner Prize for best novel of the year (World's End), the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story (T.C. Boyle Stories), and the Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel in France (The Tortilla Curtain).
His short stories have appeared in major American literary magazines including The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Paris Review, GQ and Granta. His fiction has been translated into dozens of foreign languages and has inspired multiple film adaptations.
Originally from Upstate New York, Boyle earned degrees from the State University of New York at Potsdam and the University of Iowa. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California, where he began teaching in 1978.
He lives near Santa Barbara, Calif., with his wife.
