NOVELIST
Project: Write the novel The Tortilla Curtain
A PEN-Faulkner- and PEN-Malamud-winning novelist and short story writer, Boyle has written 22 books of fiction-perhaps none more celebrated than 1995's Tortilla Curtain, which he drafted just before computers entered his writing routine.
Post-fire life in Santa Barbara will never be the same—or will it?