In this Book
- Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
Kay Boyle shared the first issue of This Quarter with Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, expressed her struggles with poetry to William Carlos Williams and voiced warm admiration to Katherine Anne Porter, fled WWII France with Max Ernst and Peggy Guggenheim, socialized with the likes of James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, and Samuel Beckett, and went to jail with Joan Baez. The letters in this first-of-its-kind collection, authorized by Boyle herself, bear witness to a transformative era illuminated by genius and darkened by Nazism and the Red Scare. Yet they also serve as milestones on the journey of a woman who possessed a gift for intense and enduring friendship, a passion for social justice, and an artistic brilliance that earned her inclusion among the celebrated figures in her ever-expanding orbit.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xvii
- Introduction
- pp. xix-xli
- Editorial Note and Abbreviations
- pp. xliii-xlvi
- Chronology
- pp. xlvii-lvi
- 1. Apprenticeship of a Young Modern
- pp. 19-92
- 2. The Revolution of the Word
- pp. 93-170
- 3. Artist en Famille
- pp. 171-270
- 4. In Love and War
- pp. 271-354
- 5. The Home Front
- pp. 355-424
- 6. In the Wake of War
- pp. 425-500
- 7. Cold War Exile
- pp. 501-580
- 8. 419 Frederick Street
- pp. 581-672
- 9. Speaking Out in Act and in Art
- pp. 673-733
- Roster of Correspondents
- pp. 734-751
- Selected Kay Boyle Bibliography
- pp. 752-755
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2015