Primary Works

Monday night. NY: J. Laughlin, 1938. PS3503.O9357 M6

Thirty stories. NY: Simon and Schuster 1946. PS3503 .O9357 .T43

... A Frenchman must die. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1946. PS3503 .O9357 F7

1939; a novel. NY: Simon and Schuster 1948. PS3503 .O9357 N5

The seagull on the step. NY: Alfred A Knopf, 1955. PS3503.O9357 S4

Three short novels. Boston: Beacon P, 1958. PS3503.O9357 T48

Generation without farewell. NY: Knopf, 1960 1959. PS3503 .O9357 G4

The smoking mountain; stories of Germany during the occupation. With a foreword by William L. Shirer. NY: Knopf, 1963. PS3503.O9357 S66

Nothing ever breaks except the heart. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. PS3503 .O9357 N6

Being geniuses together, 1920-1930. by Robert McAlmon. Rev. and with supplementary chapters by Kay Boyle. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. PS3525.A1143 Z5

The long walk at San Francisco State, and other essays. NY: Grove P, 1970. LD729.6 .S35 B6

The underground woman. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1975. PS3503 O9357 U5

Fifty stories. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. PS3503.O9357 F5

Words that must somehow be said: selected essays of Kay Boyle, 1927-1984. edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth S. Bell. San Francisco: North Point P, 1985. PS3503 .O9357 W6

Collected poems of Kay Boyle. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon P, 1991. PS3503 .O9357 A17

Process. Spanier, Sandra (ed.). Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2001.

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

"Kay Boyle Issue." Ed. Sandra W. Spanier. Twentieth Century Literature 34.3 (Fall 1988).

Austenfeld, Thomas C. American Women Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia. 2001.

- - -. ed. Kay Boyle for the Twenty-First Century: New Essays. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher, 2008.

Bell, Elizabeth S. Kay Boyle: a study of the short fiction. NY: Twayne, 1992. PS3503 .O9357 Z56

Chambers, Clark. Kay Boyle: A Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001.

Elkins, Marilyn R. ed. Critical essays on Kay Boyle. NY: G.K. Hall & Co. ; London: Prentice Hall, 1997. PS3503 .O9357 Z58

- - -. "'Another Facet of Herself': The Complicated Case of Evelyn Scott and Kay Boyle." in Scura, Dorothy M. and Jones, Paul C. eds. Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2001.

Hileman, Sharon L. "Kay Boyle (1902-1992)." in Champion, Laurie. ed. American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000.

Kale, Verna. "'A Moveable Feast' or 'a Miserable Time Actually'? Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and Modernist Memoir." in Cirino, Mark and Ott, Mark P. eds. Ernest Hemingway and the Geography of Memory. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2010. 127-145.

Lesinska, Zofia P. Perspectives of Four Women Writers on the Second World War: Gertrude Stein, Janet Flanner, Kay Boyle, and Rebecca West. NY: Peter Lang, 2002.

Maun, Caroline. Mosaic of Fire: The Work of Lola Ridge, Evelyn Scott, Charlotte Wilder, and Kay Boyle. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2012.

Spanier, Sandra. "'Paris Wasn't Like That': Kay Boyle and the Last of the Lost Generation." in Habich, Robert D. ed. Lives Out of Letters: Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2004.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page

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