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'''Kay Boyle''' (1903-1992)<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/29/arts/kay-boyle-90-writer-of-novels-and-stories-dies.html</ref> was an American author.  Her works include ''Wedding Day'' (1930), ''Plagued by the Nightingale'' (1931), ''Death of a Man'' (1936), ''Thirty Stories'' (1946), ''The Underground Woman'' (1975), and ''Fifty Stories'' (1980).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''.  Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.</ref>
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'''Kay Boyle''' (1903-1992)<ref>Pace, Eric.  "Kay Boyle, 90, Writer of Novels and Stories, Dies."
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''The New York Times''.  Obituary. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/29/arts/kay-boyle-90-writer-of-novels-and-stories-dies.html</ref> was an American writer of novels and short stories.  Her works include ''Wedding Day'' (1930), ''Plagued by the Nightingale'' (1931), ''Death of a Man'' (1936), ''Thirty Stories'' (1946), ''The Underground Woman'' (1975), and ''Fifty Stories'' (1980).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''.  Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.</ref>
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==Life and Works==
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==Life and works==
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Boyle was born February 19, 1902, in St. Paul Minnesota, was raised in Cincinnati, studies architecture in New York, took courses at [[Columbia University]], studied the violin in Cincinnati, married a French engineer, and moved to France.<ref>http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/boyle/bio.htm</ref>  In 1931 she released her first novel, ''Plagued by the Nightingale'', about a woman whose husband refuses to allow her to appease her sensual desires; this is recognized as one of the first [[feminism|feminist]] novels.<ref>http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/3416/Kay-Boyle.html</ref>  During both world wars, she divorced and married a different man, while writing novels and teaching at various universities.<ref>https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kay-Boyle</ref>  She became more political in ''Death of a Man'', writing a novel about the allure and danger of fascism.<ref>http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199827251/obo-9780199827251-0099.xml</ref>  After World War II, she left her third husband in Austria, moved to America, and wrote short stories for the [[New Yorker]].<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kay-boyle</ref>  She later supported integration, civil rights, banning nuclear weapons, and withdrawal from the Vietnam War before dying December 27, 1992, in California.<ref>https://www.poemhunter.com/kay-boyle/biography/</ref>
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Boyle was born February 19, 1902, in St. Paul Minnesota, was raised in Cincinnati, studies architecture in New York, took courses at [[Columbia University]], studied the violin in Cincinnati, married a French engineer, and moved to France.<ref>"Kay Boyle's Life." http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/boyle/bio.htm</ref>  In 1931 she released her first novel, ''Plagued by the Nightingale'', about a woman whose husband refuses to allow her to appease her sensual desires; this is recognized as one of the first [[feminism|feminist]] novels.<ref><a href="http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/3416/Kay-Boyle.html">Kay Boyle Biography - (1902–1992), Being Geniuses Together, Plagued by the Nightingale, Year Before Last, My Next Bride, Avalanche</a></ref>  During both world wars, she divorced and married a different man, while writing novels and teaching at various universities.<ref>"Boyle, Kay."
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''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kay-Boyle</ref>  She became more political in ''Death of a Man'', writing a novel about the allure and danger of fascism.<ref>Austenfeld, Thomas, and  Anne Reynès-Delobel. "Kay Boyle."
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''Oxford Bibliographies''. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199827251/obo-9780199827251-0099.xml</ref>  After World War II, she left her third husband in Austria, moved to America, and wrote short stories for the [[New Yorker]].<ref>Kay Boyle from the ''New Yorker'' contributor list http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kay-boyle</ref>  She later supported integration, civil rights, banning nuclear weapons, and withdrawal from the Vietnam War before dying December 27, 1992, in California.<ref>"Kay Boyle - Biography."  ''Poem Hunter''. https://www.poemhunter.com/kay-boyle/biography/</ref>
    
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[[Category:Women Authors]]
 
[[Category:Feminists]]
 
[[Category:Feminists]]
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