Thomas coraghessan boyle biography of albert lea

Boyle earned his M.F.A.

Boyle was born on December 2, , inPeekskill, New York. He has noted that he never read a book until he was eighteen. In fact, Boyle never aspired to be a writer. While in school, he took an influential creative writing course, and began reading literature. After graduating in , Boyle taught English in a public high school, which, he has admitted, was mainly to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.

During this same period, Boyle began writing his own short stories and became a habitual user of drugs and alcohol. Browse all BookRags Study Guides. Copyrights The Underground Gardens from Gale. All rights reserved. Toggle navigation. Sign Up. Sign In. Coraghessan Boyle.

Novelist and short story writer T. C. Boyle was born Thomas John Boyle, Jr., in.

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