T. Coraghessan Boyle (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
T. Coraghessan Boyle was born in 1948, in Peekskill, New York, a small town on the banks of the Hudson River in the area made famous by Washington Irving in such stories as “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” The middle name, pronounced kuh-RAG-is-son, is an admitted affectation; his real name is Thomas John Boyle. His father was a school bus driver, and his mother was a secretary. Boyle's grade school and high school education gave no indication of his future as a writer; in fact, he has said, in a typically facetious exaggeration, that he...
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