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Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. Boyle is best known for her fiction, which often explored the intersections of personal and political themes.
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published nineteen novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, [3] for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.
After the Plague is a 2001 collection of short stories by T. C. Boyle. [1] The book was released on September 10, 2001 through Viking Adult and contains sixteen stories, some of which were previously published in The New Yorker, O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American Short Stories.
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Jul. 11—After spending the week in Scranton covering the civil trial brought against Luzerne County, the driving time offered me an opportunity to reflect on those good old days. Life on the ...
The title story of this collection was inspired by Bruce Springsteen’s song "Spirit in the Night". [4] Boyle himself is a musician and once aspired to play rock music. [5] For a short while he played saxophone in a band called The Ventilators, although they never recorded. [5] Greasy Lake is also reminiscent of Boyle’s years as a ...
For nearly the first six years of my life, I was extremely content to live the life of an only child with two strict, yet sometimes doting parents who spoiled me rotten. ... Reach Bill O'Boyle at ...
New Orleans Review examined the variety of themes that inform Boyle's approach to crime fiction in its discussion of his short-story collection, Death Don't Have No Mercy. [8] On the cover of the U.K. edition of Boyle's 2019 comic crime caper, A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself, Roddy Doyle singled out the strength and humor of the female ...