Kay Boyle
Kay Boyle was an expatriate American modernist fiction writer and activist who drew on her decades in Europe to write taut, politically engaged short stories and novels. She was twice awarded the O. Henry Prize.
Works
- Plagued by the NightingaleNovel set in post-World War I Europe exploring family dysfunction
- Year Before LastNovel of bohemian life in 1920s Europe and romantic tragedy
- Death of a ManNovel exploring mortality, medicine, and human relationships
- The Underground WomanNovel of a woman imprisoned for her political convictions
- Fifty StoriesShort story collection of varied human experience and conflict