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. Killoyle became the first book in the ?Killoyle trilogy,? followed by The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad in 2003 and The Maladjusted Terrorist in 2006. In 2011, Boylan published a memoir, Run Like Blazes, and followed it in 2012 with his magnum opus, The Adorations, also available from Dalkey Archive Press. Boylan is a regular contributor to the Boston Review's New Fiction Forum, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Economist. He currently lives in Texas.