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�).