L.A. Novelist Boyle Wins PEN Award

Los Angeles novelist T. Coraghessan Boyle was named the winner of the eighth annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel, “World’s End” on Wednesday. Boyle’s book was selected from more than 200 novels and short story collections by American writers published in 1987.

A professor of creative writing at USC, Boyle is the author of four previous books, “Descent of Man,” “Water Music,” “Budding Prospects” and “Greasy Lake” and his stories have appeared in most major American magazines.

Boyle will receive the $5,000 award at a ceremony on May 14 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. Four other nominated writers will each receive $1,000. They are Richard Bausch (“Spirits”), Alice McDermott (“That Night”), Cynthia Ozick (“The Messiah of Stockholm”) and Lawrence Thornton (“Imagining Argentina”).