He also observed: "For all Boyle's similarities to other artists, no Americans . . . write about the diverse subjects he does in the way he does."
A self-described "pampered punk" of the 1960s, Boyle did not set out to become a writer. Born in Peekskill, New York to Irish immigrant parents, Boyle led a life, as he saw it, full of rebellion and rock and roll. Both his parents were alcoholics who died before Boyle was thirty. Named Thomas John after his father, Boyle changed his name at seventeen to distance himself from his roots, taking a new middle name from his mother's side of the family. Boyle has reported that he did not read a book until he was eighteen, and then attended college as a music student at the State University of New York at Potsdam, where he began to compose plays and short stories after enrolling in a creative writing course on a whim.
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