Kay Boyle
Born
in St. Paul, Minnesota, The United States
February 19, 1902
Died
December 27, 1992
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The Crazy Hunter
7 editions
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1938
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Year Before Last
17 editions
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published
1932
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Plagued by the Nightingale
10 editions
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published
1930
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Three Short Novels: The Crazy Hunter; The Bridegroom's Body; Decision
6 editions
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published
1958
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Life Being the Best & Other Stories
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6 editions
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published
1988
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Death of a Man: A Novel
6 editions
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published
1936
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My Next Bride
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6 editions
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published
1934
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Fifty Stories
8 editions
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published
1980
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Collected Poems
4 editions
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published
1991
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Process
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3 editions
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published
2001
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“Writing of a chance early meeting with Dylan Thomas in a London bar, Kay Boyle writes (1955, in the era of McCarthyism, 1947-1956):
Perhaps because he [Dylan Thomas was so often out of place among men, we take him now as symbol. Perhaps because we who write in America are in great difficulties now, we cherish Dylan Thomas as if he were our own ego, our own wild soul freed of the flesh. An American critic, writing of the American literary scene, points out that thinking Americans, in this period of our nation's development, are deeply troubled because "the demands for national security and for individual freedom" are in conflict.”
― Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984
Perhaps because he [Dylan Thomas was so often out of place among men, we take him now as symbol. Perhaps because we who write in America are in great difficulties now, we cherish Dylan Thomas as if he were our own ego, our own wild soul freed of the flesh. An American critic, writing of the American literary scene, points out that thinking Americans, in this period of our nation's development, are deeply troubled because "the demands for national security and for individual freedom" are in conflict.”
― Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984
“There is no way for even the most honest among us to look into memory's dreamy, evasive eyes and know she can be persuaded not to lie, not to betray.”
― Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984
― Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984
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