Kay Boyle : a twentieth-century life in letters /
"Kay Boyle knew everybody. In a long life (1902-1992) spent in motion between the United States and Europe she was the friend of Robert McAlmon (whose Being Geniuses Together she supplemented), with Harry and Caresse Crosby (founders of The Black Sun Press), Peggy Guggenheim and Max Ernst (with...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2015]
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| ISBN: | 9780252097362 025209736X |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Ttile Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Editorial Note and Abbreviations; Chronology; Prologue: From St. Paul to Paris; 1 Apprenticeship of a Young Modern: Cincinnati, New York, Brittany, Normandy, 1919-1925; 2 The Revolution of the Word: Provence, England, Paris, 1926-1929; 3 Artist en Famille: Villefranche, Vienna, Kitzbühel, Devonshire, Mégève, 1930-1939; 4 In Love and War: Mégève and Vichy France, 1940-1941; 5 The Home Front: New York and the American West, 1941-1945; 6 In the Wake of War: Paris and Occupied Germany, 1946-1952.
- 7 Cold War Exile: Connecticut, Tehran, San Francisco, 1953-19638 419 Frederick Street: San Francisco, 1964-1979; 9 Speaking Out in Act and in Art: Oregon, Oakland, Mill Valley, 1980-1992; Roster of Correspondents; Selected Kay Boyle Bibliography; Index.