Kay Boyle

Kay Boyle(1902–1992) published over forty books, twice won the O'Henry award for best short story of the year, and worked as a foreign correspondent for The New Yorker. Her books include Process: A Novel and Fifty Stories. Sandra Spanier is a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and general editor of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway. She is the author of Kay Boyle: Artist and Activist and editor of Boyle's Life Being the Best and Other Stories and Process: A Novel.

Honorable Mention, Morton N. Cohen Award, Modern Language Association (MLA), 2017.— Modern Language Association (MLA)

• CoverTtile PageCopyrightContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionEditorial Note and AbbreviationsChronologyPrologue: From St. Paul to Paris1. Apprenticeship of a Young Modern: Cincinnati, New York, Brittany, Normandy, 1919–19252. The Revolution of the Word: Provence, England, Paris, 1926–19293. Artist en Famille: Villefranche, Vienna, Kitzbühel, Devonshire, Mégève, 1930–19394. In Love and War: Mégève and Vichy France, 1940–19415. The Home Front: New York and the American West, 1941–19456. In the Wake of War: Paris and Occupied Germany, 1946–19527. Cold War Exile: Connecticut, Tehran, San Francisco, 1953–19638. 419 Frederick Street: San Francisco, 1964–19799. Speaking Out in Act and in Art: Oregon, Oakland, Mill Valley, 1980–1992Roster of CorrespondentsSelected Kay Boyle BibliographyIndex