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Kay Boyle

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Kay Boyle drew a great deal of attention from literary stalwarts from her earliest publications in European journals and magazines. Later reprinted in the essay, "The Somnambulists," in 1929, William Carlos Williams wrote in transition that Boyle's stories were "of a high degree of excellence." He also noted that people with a "comprehensive" but "disturbing view of what takes place in the human understanding at moment of intense living," will not succeed with the...

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Kay Boyle Biographies (4)

Kay Boyle

4,915 words, approx. 17 pages

One of the larger ironies of the renewed interest in the American expatriate movement of the twenties and thirties is the relative obscurity of one of the period's most important and prolific contribu... Read more

Kay Boyle

6,174 words, approx. 21 pages

Kay Boyle , poet, short-story writer, novelist, journalist, and teacher, has been known to the American reading public since 1929, when her first collection of short stories was published. One of the ... Read more

Kay Boyle

2,655 words, approx. 9 pages

Kay Boyle's poetry is often relegated to a minor footnote in her distinguished literary career, for she is better known for her fiction, which includes fourteen novels and ten short story collections.... Read more

Kay Boyle

5,577 words, approx. 19 pages

As a member of the expatriate literary community in Paris in the late 1920s and 1930s, Kay Boyle was well known for her novels, poetry, and short fiction, but it is as a short-story writer that she ... Read more

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