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An introduction to Kay Boyle, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions, includes the following sections: Kay Boyle's Life; On "Communication to Nancy Cunard"; Haywood Patterson's Letter to Boyle's Daughter; A Scottsboro Petition; Life Magazine Photo-Essay on the Scottsboro Boys (1937); Carleton Beals in The Nation (1936); A Scottsboro Chronology; A Scottsboro Protest Exhibit; from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
A brief introduction from Prentice-Hall notes that "her stories, many of which, like "Astronomer's Wife," deal with man's constant search for love, have been collected in Short Stories (1929), Wedding Day (1930), First Love (1933), The White Horses of Vienna (1936), Thirty Stories (1946), The Smoking Mountain: Stories of Postwar Germany (1951), Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart (1966), and Fifty Stories (1980)
"Abortion, identity formation, and the expatriate woman writer: H.D. and Kay Boyle in the twenties," Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 1994 by Donna Hollenberg
A review of Love and Loss: Stories of the Heart, an anthology short stories written by women authors including Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, Edith Wharton, and Dorothy Parker, and containing Kay Boyle's "Black Boy," Says the reviewer, these are "stories not just of love but of loss or absence of love." Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1994 by Debra L. West-Maciaszek
Publisher's introduction to Kay Boyle's first novel, Process, from Univ. of Ill. Press. "Process is a classic Bildungsroman and "a portrait of the artist as a young woman." Like James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus, Kerith Day is a sensitive youth, self-consciously in search of her own identity and place in the world."
A brief biography of Kay Boyle from the Univ. of Deleware
Discussion list posting on Kay Boyle's Being Geniuses Together raises questions about the book as "a remarkably decentered memoir."
An interesting dedication on a book, penned by Samuel Beckett to Kay Boyle
A photo of Kay Boyle's house in San Francisco, a city she is associated with as a teacher at San Francisco State College
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