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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>
'''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>
==Life and Works==
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>
==References==
==References==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/boyle/bio.htm Extensive Biography] by the University of Illinois
*[http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/3416/Kay-Boyle.html Description] of works
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