Roger Boylan

Roger Boylan is an American writer who was raised in Ireland, France, and Switzerland and attended the University of Ulster and the University of Edinburgh. His novel "Killoyle" was published in 1997 by Dalkey Archive Press and has been reprinted four times. In 2003, a sequel, "The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad," was published by Grove Press, New York. German versions of both novels, translated by the award-winning German translator and author Harry Rowohlt, were critically and commercially successful. The third volume in the Killoyle trilogy, "The Maladjusted Terrorist," was published in Germany in 2006 and is forthcoming in English. The entire trilogy was reissued in German in 2007 by Kein & Aber, Zurich.

Boylan's latest novel, "The Adorations," in which a Swiss professor named Gustave, Adolf Hitler, Hitler's mistress, the Archangel Michael, and a journalistic sexpot meet at the intersection of history and fantasy, has been published as an e-book and is now available on Amazon.com and other online bookstores.

Boylan's light-hearted memoir, "Run Like Blazes," has also been published as a Kindle e-book and is also now available on Amazon.com.

Boylan is a regular contributor to Boston Review's "New Fiction Forum" and the online automotive review Autosavant. His stories and articles have appeared in many journals and reviews, including The New York Times Book Review, The Literary Review, The Economist, The Texas Observer, The Austin American-Statesman, and Scrivener. He is working on a novel and a memoir. Currently he lives near Austin, Texas.