T.C. BOYLE – a distinguished professor emeritus of English at the University of Southern California – is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published 19 novels, including World’s End, for which he won the PEN/Faulkner award, The Tortilla Curtain, and more than 150 short stories. His latest book is Blue Skies: A Novel (Liveright).