1. Kay Boyle was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist.
17 Facts About Kay Boyle
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Kay Boyle's work contributed significantly to modernist literature, and she was an active participant in the expatriate literary scene in Paris during the 1920s.
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Kay Boyle was a Guggenheim Fellow and O Henry Award winner.
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The granddaughter of a publisher, Kay Boyle was born in St Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in several cities but principally in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Kay Boyle had one sibling, an elder sister, Joan, later Mrs Detweiler.
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In later years, Kay Boyle championed integration and civil rights.
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Kay Boyle advocated banning nuclear weapons, and American withdrawal from the Vietnam War.
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Kay Boyle was educated at the exclusive Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, then studied architecture at the Ohio Mechanics Institute in Cincinnati.
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Kay Boyle wrote for transition, one of the preeminent literary publications of the day.
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Kay Boyle's husband was dismissed by Roy Cohn from his post in the Public Affairs Division of the United States Department of State, and Boyle lost her position as foreign correspondent for The New Yorker, a post she had held for six years.
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Kay Boyle was blacklisted by most of the major magazines.
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Kay Boyle was then rehired by the State Department and posted to Iran, but died shortly thereafter in 1963.
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Kay Boyle was a writer in residence at the New York City Writer's Conference at Wagner College in 1962.
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Kay Boyle traveled to Cambodia in 1966 as part of the "Americans Want to Know" fact-seeking mission.
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Kay Boyle participated in protests, and in 1967 was arrested twice and imprisoned.
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Kay Boyle was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution.
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Kay Boyle died at a retirement community in Mill Valley, California on December 27,1992.