With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Kaye Boyle
Education/Curation, Fiction
1902 – 1992
- Biography/Description of Work
The granddaughter of a publisher, Kay Boyle was influenced by her mother, Katherine Evans, a literary and social activist who believed that the wealthy had an obligation to help the less well off. Boyle became a writer of novels and short stories, and later in life a political activist. She championed integration and civil rights, and advocated banning nuclear weapons, and American withdrawal from the Vietnam War. She was also a writer-in-residence and a member of the creative writing faculty at several colleges. She and her husband lived in Rowayton, Norwalk, in the 1960s.
- Sources view
- Rowayton Historical Society, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Boyle, http://www.english.illinois.edu/Maps/poets/a_f/crosby/remembering.htm, http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/boyle/bio.htm Kay Boyle Article - New York Times - 1984-7-15, Kay Boyle Article - New York Times - 1994-5-1, Kay Boyle Obituary - New York Times - 1992-12-29
- Associated Resource(s)
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