Thomas Coraghessan Boyle is considered one of the most important American storytellers of the moment. He was born in Peekskill, New York, in 1948. He graduated in English and History from New York University in Potsdam, and specialized in nineteenth-century literature at the Writers' Workshop of the University of Iowa, where he finished his first book of stories, Descent of Man (1979). He later published Greasy Lake (1985), If the River Was Whiskey (1989) and Without a Hero (1994). In 1999 he received the Pen / Malamud prize for his volume of short stories T. C. Boyle Stories. Among his novels, it is worth mentioning Música acuática (1981), which narrates the adventures of the Scottish explorer Mungo Park, discoverer of the course of the Niger River; The end of the world (1987), which earned him the Pen / Faulkner prize; The Battle Creek spa (1993), successfully adapted to the big screen; The Tortilla Curtain (1997), awarded with the Prix Médicis Étranger for the best novel published in France that year; Drop City (2003); Women (2009), which chronicles the life of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright through the testimony of four of the women who passed through his life, or The Little Savage (2010), a novel that recovers the story of the wild child of Aveyron, which , knowledgeable of numerous adaptations, can be considered a mythical narrative of modern narrative. He is currently a professor of literature at the University of Southern California. His works have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and his stories have appeared in the most prestigious publications of the genre in English, such as The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Paris Review, GQ , Antaeus, Granta and McSweeney's. He lives near Santa Bárbara with his wife and three children.