“I think my Crazy Hunter is the best thing I’ve ever done,” Kay Boyle wrote to her sister Joan in 1939, two weeks after she had finished writing it. Twenty years later she wrote to a friend, it “remai
Kay Boyle’s Fifty Stories is an eloquent testament to the possibility of living and writing with passion and honor. In Paris in the twenties, in Austria before and after the Anschluss, in New York, in
From Paris in the 1920's to the student strikes at San Francisco State in the 1960's, Kay Boyle chronicled much of the twentieth century. This collection includes all her published poetry as well as n
Thirteen stories deal with three sisters, a young woman's dashed hopes, failed love, life's dissatisfactions, missed opportunities, and the search for identity
"Kay Boyle knew everybody. In a long life (1902-1992) spent in motion between the United States and Europe she was the friend of Robert McAlmon (whose Being Geniuses Together she supplemented), with H
