Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) was an American writer and political activist. Her most famous works include Being Geniuses Together: 1920-1930 and Process.1
Works
Novels
- Process (1925)
- Plagued by the Nightingale (1931)
- Year Before Last (1932)
- Gentlemen, I Address You Privately (1933)
- My Next Bride (1934)
- Death of a Man (1936)
- Yellow Dusk (1937) Ghostwritten for Bettina Bedwell
- Monday Night (1938)
- The Crazy Hunter: Three Short Novels (The Crazy Hunter, The Bridegroom’s Body, and Big Fiddle) (1940)
- Primer for Combat (1942)
- Avalanche (1944)
- A Frenchman Must Die (1946)
- 1939 (1948)
- His Human Majesty (1949)
- The Seagull on the Step (1955)
- Three Short Novels (The Crazy Hunter,The Bridegroom’s Body, Decision) (1958)
- Generation Without Farewell (1960)
- The Underground Woman (1975)
- Winter Night (1993)
Story collections
- Short Stories (1929)
- Wedding Day and Other Stories (1930)
- The First Lover and Other Stories (1933)
- The White Horses of Vienna (1935)
- The Astronomer’s Wife (1936)
- Defeat (1941)
- Thirty Stories (1946)
- The Smoking Mountain: Stories of Postwar Germany (1951)
- Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart (1966)
- Fifty Stories (1980)
- Life Being the Best and Other Stories (1988)
Children’s books
- The Youngest Camel (1939)
- Pinky, the Cat Who Liked to Sleep (1966)
- Pinky in Persia (1968)
Poetry
- A Statement (1932)
- A Glad Day (1938)
- American Citizen: Naturalized in Leadville (1944)
- Collected Poems (1962)
- The Lost Dogs of Phnom Pehn (1968)
- Testament for My Students and Other Poems (1970)
- A Poem for February First (1975)
- This Is Not a Letter and Other Poems (1985)
- Collected Poems of Kay Boyle (1991)
Non-fiction
- Relations & Complications. Being the Recollections of H.H. The Dayang Muda of Sarawak. (1929) Ghostewritten for Gladys Milton Brooke
- Breaking the Silence: Why a Mother Tells Her Son about the Nazi Era (1962)
- The Last Rim of The World (1966)
- Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930 (1968) with Robert McAlmon
- Winter Night and a conversation with the author in New Sounds In American Fiction (1969)
- The Long Walk at San Francisco State and Other Essays (1970)
- Four Visions of America (1977) with others
- Words That Must Somehow Be Said (1985)
See also
External Links
- Kay Boyle Collection at the University of Texas at Austin
- Kay Boyle Papers at the University of Delaware
- Kay Boyle Papers at Texas Tech University
- Kay Boyle Papers at Southern Illinois University
- Academy of American Poets profile
- Goodreads profile
- Articles by Boyle in The New York Review of Books
References
1. “Kay Boyle.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 25, 2020.
