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This first critical assessment of Kay Boyle's long career is both a portrait of the artists and a perceptive appraisal of her work. Boyle has lent her cooperation and support to Spanier's efforts to gather biographical material. Particularly enriching for this study were several meetings and extensive correspondence between author and critic. Spanier draws on hundreds of pages of letters containing a wealth of new information about Boyle's life, works,...

Critical extracts. Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth. Hurston, Zora Neale. Jackson, Shirley. Larsen, Nella. McCarty, Mary. McCullers, Carson. Mitchell, Margaret. Nin, Anais. O'Connor, Flannery. Parker, Dorothy. Petry, Ann.