T C Boyle

T. C. Boyle

T. C. Boyle (Thomas John Coraghessan Boyle), 1948–, American writer, b. Peekskill, N.Y., grad. State Univ. of New York (B.A. 1968), Univ. of Iowa (M.F.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1977). He published under the name T. Coraghessan Boyle until the mid-1990s. Influenced by such literary heroes as Evelyn Waugh , Gabriel García Márquez , and Flannery O'Connor , he has become known for his wildly imaginative, simile-rich, manically jumpy yet highly polished polysyllabic prose as well as for his satiric bent and hipster-tinged black humor. Boyle's settings range from the historical to the contemporary, his subject matter and characters often edging into the quirky, strange, or bizarre. He first came to critical attention with his short stories in the mid-1970s; they and those that followed have been gathered in such collections as The Descent of Man (1979), If the River Was Whiskey (1990), T. C. Boyle Stories (1998), After the Plague (2001), Tooth and Claw (2005), and Wild Child (2010). He is also a prolific novelist whose longer fictional works include Water Music (1981), World's End (1987), East Is East (1990), The Road to Wellville (1993; film, 1994), which lampoons the theories of John H. Kellogg , The Tortilla Curtain (1995), Riven Rock (1998), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), The Women (2009), and When the Killing's Done (2011). Boyle has taught at the Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1978.

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Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford

Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford (1818–71) Union army officer, born in Mercer County, Kentucky. In the Civil War, Boyle was assigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to Louisville to command “peacekeeping” forces in western Kentucky. In this bitterly divided border state, Boyle trampled civil liberties (and exasperated President Abraham Lincoln) with countless arrests on suspicion of disloyalty, censorship, interference in local elections, and frequent executions of suspected guerrillas. Further, he continually overestimated the numbers of Confederate raiders, dispatched garbled and inaccurate intelligence of enemy movements, and pursued slowly if at all.

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