T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of seventeen books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), and Tooth and Claw (2005). He received a Ph.D. degree in Nineteenth Century British Literature from the University of Iowa in 1977, his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and his B.A. in English and History from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978. His books are available in a number of foreign languages, including German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian. 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. He currently lives near Santa Barbara with his wife and three children.

List of Publications

• Descent of Man. 
  Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1979.
• Water Music.  Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1981.
• Budding Prospects.  New York: Viking, 1984.
• Greasy Lake.  New York: Viking, 1985.
• World's End.  New York: Viking, 1987.
• If the River Was Whiskey.  New York: Viking, 1989.
• East Is East.  New York: Viking, 1990.
• The Road to Wellville.  New York: Viking, 1993.
• Without A Hero.  New York: Viking, 1994.
• The Tortilla Curtain.  New York: Viking, 1995.
• Riven Rock.  New York: Viking, 1998.
• T.C. Boyle Stories.  New York: Viking, 1998.
• A Friend of the Earth.  New York: Viking, 2000.
• After the Plague.  New York: Viking, 2001.
• Drop City. New York: Viking, 2003.
  The Inner Circle. New York: Viking, 2004.
• Tooth and Claw. New York: Viking, 2005.
• Doubletakes: Pairs of Contemporary Short Stories, edited by T.C. Boyle. Boston: Wadsworth, 2003