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Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. [2] She was a Guggenheim Fellow and O. Henry Award winner. Early years
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Kay Boyle (born February 19, 1902, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.—died December 27, 1992, Mill Valley, California) was an American writer and political activist noted throughout her career as a keen and scrupulous student of the interior lives of characters in desperate situations.
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- Early Life
- New York, France, and The Beginning of A Career
- Upheaval and A New Love
- “You’ve Come Too Late … The Quarter Is Finished”
- Autobiographical Writings
- Return to America
- Later Years and Politics
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Kay was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to a wealthy family presided over by her grandfather, Jesse Peyton Boyle (known as Puss). Her father, Howard, was a weak and ineffectual man who relied on Puss: Kay later claimed that she “knew from my father and grandfather what I didn’t want to be, and the kind of person I didn’t really have any respect for at...
In 1922, Kay moved to New York with her fiancé, a French exchange student called Richard Brault, and they married at New York City Hall in June. Kay, however, was concentrating on her fledgling career. She had already had her first print publication with a letter to the editor of Harriet Monroe’s Poetrymagazine. In November 1922 she went to work as...
Desperately unhappy, Kay spent her days walking and writing, sometimes writing so many letters that she didn’t have the money to post them. It was at Le Havre that she wrote her breakthrough poem, Harbour Song. She also completed her first novel (Process), published short stories in several small magazines including Broom andMorada, and began corre...
In Paris Kay, needing to support herself and her young daughter, became the ghostwriter for the Princess of Sarawak, who she had met in the South of France with Walsh and who wanted her memoirs published. Kay received 500 francs plus room and board, but Sharon (known as Bobby) was not allowed to stay. Justifying her decision to take the job anyway,...
The 1930s were a productive decade for Kay. Her first book of short stories had been published by Black Sun in 1929 to rave reviews. William Carlos Williams said that Kay picked up whereEmily Dickinsonhad left off, and Charles Henri Ford wrote that her stories “amaze and cut and make one cry because of their beauty.” Robert McAlmon, however, was le...
After World War II, Kay and her family returned to America. This in itself was no easy feat. The fact that she had stayed in Europe during the war and married a German made her suspicious to the authorities, and it took Peggy Guggenheim’s money and influence to get Kay, Joseph, Laurence, and all the children safely to New York. Kay returned to Euro...
In the 1960s, after Joseph’s death, Kay settled in San Francisco where she taught creative writing at the State College. She became heavily involved in student protests and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, traveling to Cambodia in 1966 as part of the “Americans Want to Know” fact-finding mission, and spending time in jail twice in 1967. Politics do...
Major works This is but a sampling of Kay Boyle’s prolific output. See her full bibliography on Wikipedia. Novels 1. Plagued by the Nightingale(1931) 2. Year Before Last(1932) 3. Gentlemen, I Address You Privately (1933) 4. My Next Bride(1934) 5. Death of a Man(1936) 6. Monday Night(1938) Short story collections 1. Short Stories(1929) 2. Wedding Da...
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Writer Kay Boyle (1902–1992) had little patience with the legend of the “Lost Generation” of American expatriate artists and writers who gathered in Paris in the 1920s.
Dec 29, 1992 · Kay Boyle, a short-story writer and novelist renowned for her deft and powerful style and her keen insights into human nature, died on Sunday night at the Redwoods, a retirement community in Mill...
Mar 30, 2020 · Kay Boyle, 1944. Photo by Al Ravenna. New York World-Telegram and Sun collection, Prints & Photographs Division. The poet, novelist, short story and nonfiction writer, and political activist Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was blessed with a kindred soul in her mother, Katherine Evans Boyle.
May 26, 2016 · Kay Boyle (b. 1902–d. 1992) produced more than forty volumes, including novels, short stories, poems, essays, an autobiography, translations, and children’s books.
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