Kay Boyle

Boyle, Kay - 1903–93, American writer, b. St. Paul, Minn. A European expatriate in the interwar years, she returned to Europe as a correspondent for the New Yorker (1946–53) and subsequently taught English at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State Univ.). Her novels and stories often illuminate a desperate moment when courageous action is demanded although tragedy will Read More...

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Kay Boyle: Artist and Activist
by Sandra Whipple Spanier. 262 pgs.

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Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue: "The Crusading Spirit"

1: Beginnings: St. Paul to Paris

2: The Revolution of the Word

3: More Fruits of the Twenties: The First Four Novels

4: The Thirties: Art and The Functioning World

5: Interlude: Monday Night And The Crazy Hunter

6: The War Years: Politics And Potboilers

7: In the Wake of War

8: Back Home: "It Might Just Save the World"

Epilogue: Tunes of an Aeolian Harp

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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America's 93 Greatest Living Authors Present This Is My Best: Over 150 Self-Chosen and Complete Masterpieces, Together with Their Reasons for Their Selections (1942) ("Kay Boyle Story They Weren't Going to Die" begins on p. 1005)
by Whit Burnett. 1188 pgs.

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Foreword

I the Man's Story

Theodore Dreiser Why He Selected the Hand

Ernest Hemingway Why He Selected the Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

John Steinbeck the Leader of the People

Stephen Leacock Why He Selected My Remarkable Uncle

Conrad Aiken Why He Selected Strange Moonlight

Morley Callaghan Why He Selected Two Fishermen

Ii the American Dream

Archibald Macleish Why He Selected America Was Promises

Willa Cather Neighbour Rosicky

Sinclair Lewis Dinner with the Babbitts

James Truslow Adams Why He Selected the American Dream

Mark Van Doren Why He Selected America's Mythology

Dorothy Parker Why She Selected the Standard of Living

Wolcott Gibbs Why He Selected the Customer is Always Wrong

Iii A Goodly Heritage

EnÉt Why He Selected the Devil and Daniel Webster

Van Wyck Brooks Why He Selected Hawthorne in Salem

Mary Ellen Chase Why She Selected the Lord's Day in the Nineties

Robert Frost Why He Selected Sixteen Poems

Robert P. Tristram Coffin Why He Selected Maine is a Perpetual Poem

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Why She Selected the Night on the Cobble

Edmund Wilson Why He Selected the Old Stone House

Erskine Caldwell Why He Selected Country Full of Swedes

Henry Seidel Canby Why He Selected Home in the Nineties

John P. Marquand Why He Selected Last Days of a Bostonian

Ellen Glasgow Why She Selected the Deep Past

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Why She Selected Hyacinth Drift

Jesse Stuart Why He Selected Another April

Conrad Richter Why He Selected Lutie

William Allen White Why He Mary White

Iv the Jungle

James T. Farrell Why He Selected Studs

Richard Wright Why He Selected How "Bigger" Was Born

Elmer Rice Why He Selected the Adding Machine

E B. White Why He Selected Quo Vadimus?

Louis Adamic Why He Selected Girl on the Road

Langston Hughes Why He Selected Poems of American Negro Life

Maxwell Anderson Mio and Miriamne

William Faulkner That Evening Sun Go Down

Katherine Anne Porter Why She Selected Flowering Judas

John Dos Passos Why He Selected Escape to the Proletariat

Frank Sullivan Why He Selected the Jukes Family

Booth Tarkington Why He Selected Bridewater's Half Dollar

V the Dust Which Is God

Edna St. Vincent Millay Fifteen Sonnets

William Rose BenÉt Why He Selected from the Dust Which is God

Louis Untermeyer Why He Selected Three Poems

Christopher Morley Why He Selected a Song for Eros

(james) Branch Cabell Why He Selected Dedications in Acrostics

Robinson Jeffers Why He Selected Tamar Dancing

William Carlos Williams Why He Selected Some Flower Studies

Marianne Moore Why She Selected What Are Years?

Muriel Rukeyser Why She Selected Song from "Mediterranean"

H. D. Why She Selected the Islands

Wallace Stevens Why He Selected Domination of Black

Vi the Masters

Agnes Repplier Why Selected Horace

Edgar Lee Masters Why He Selected To-Morrow is My Birthday

Carl Van Doren Why He Selected Swift and Vanessa

Hendrik Willem Van Loon Why He Selected Beethoven

Joseph Wood Krutch Why He Selected the Second Part of "Don Quixote"

Vii the Drama

George Jean Nathan Why He Selected Aesthetic Jurisprudence

Eugene O'Neill Why He Selected the Great God Brown

Robert E. Sherwood Why He Selected the Election of Lincoln

Stark Young Why He Selected Mei Lan-Fang

Thornton Wilder Why He Selected the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden

William Saroyan Why He Selected A Preface

Clifford Odets Why He Selected Rocket to the Moon

E. E. Cummings Why He Selected Speech from a Play

Viii Kitchen Bouquet

Irvin S. Cobb Why He Selected "Speaking of Operations--"

Cornelia Otis Skinner Why She Selected the Body Beautiful

Robert Benchley Why He Selected the Treasurer's Report

Ogden Nash Why He Selected Two and One Are a Problem

S. J. Perelman Why He Selected Kitchen Bouquet

James Thurber Why He Selected the Night the Ghost Got In

Ludwig Bemelmans Why He Selected Sacre Du Printemps

Ix They Weren't Going to Die

Irwin Edman Why He Selected M. Platon

Pierre Van Paassen Why He Selected the Street of Our Lady

Louis Bromfield Why He Selected the Rains Came

Pearl Buck Why She Selected the Old Demon

John Gunther Why He Selected the Outbreak of International Gangsterism

Vincent Sheean Why He Selected the Thirteen Bus

X the Realm of Being

Biographies and Bibliographies

Acknowledgments

Index by Authors

Index by Titles
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Writers and Writing ("An Interview with Kay Boyle: Expatriate" begins on p. 193)
by Robert van Gelder. 388 pgs.

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Notes on the Literary Life

Mencken on Literature And Politics

Writing Contemporary History

Pearl Buck Talks of Her Work

That Daring Young Man, William Saroyan

A Talk with Erskine Caldwell

Marquand Unburdens Himself

Katherine Anne Porter At Work

BenÉt's Work in Progress

Asch Returns from the Past

Thurber's Life and Hard Times

Thomas Mann in Princeton

John O'Hara, Who Talks Like His Stories

The Road Up for Jesse Stuart

Van Wyck Mason's Way of Work

Ben Appel of Hell's Kitchen

James Warner Bellah On Writing for Money

William Allen White Talks Of Writing and Reading

Sinclair Lewis Talks Of Writing--And Acting

Writing Biography and History

The Future of Writing in A World at War

Professor Lancelot Hogben, An "Author in Flight"

Ernest Hemingway Talks Of Work and War

James Norman Hall Talks About Writing and Idling

Jan Struther, Who Created Mrs. Miniver

This Business of Writing For the Movies

Sigrid Undset Speaks Of Writing and War

Gene Fowler Tells of His Writing Plans

Thomas Wolfe as Friends Remember Him

Van Wyck Brooks on Confident Writing

Mr. Lion Feuchtwanger Talks Of His Work

H. G. Wells Discusses Himself And His Work

Some Difficulties Confronting The Satirist

Stuart Cloete Discusses His Work Methods: He Turned To Writing After Fifteen Years Of Ranching When He Decided There Was Just So Much You Could Do for Cows

Mr. Maugham on the Essentials Of Writing: the Author of "Of Human Bondage" Has Temporarily Quit Fiction

An Interview with Bruce Lancaster

An Interview with Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Curious Retirement Of Mr. Hergesheimer

Louis Adamic on His New Series Of Books

Josephine Lawrence Talks Of Her Work

A Talk with the Author Of "Out of the Night"

An Interview with Theodore Dreiser

An Interview with Mr. Arthur Train

An Interview with Mr. Robert Nathan

A Talk with Clarence Budington Kelland.

A Talk with the Surprised Sally Benson

An Interview with Gelett Burgess

An Interview with Hervey Allen

An Interview with Kay Boyle, Expatriate

An Interview with Budd Schulberg

An Interview with Rex Beach

An Interview with H. Allen Smith

An Interview with Mr. And Mrs. Pinkerton

An Interview with Margaret Leech

An Interview with Rex Stout

An Interview with Charles Morgan

The Author of "A Thousand Shall Fall"

John Gunther, Who Wrote "Inside Europen"

Irvin S. Cobb Discusses His Writing

An Interview with John Dos Passos

A Talk with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

An Interview with George R. Stewart

An Interview with Irving Bacheller

An Interview with George Jean Nathan

An Interview with Edgar Lee Masters

An Interview with Elliot Paul

An Interview with Louis Bromfield

An Interview with Eric Knight

An Interview with Grace Zaring Stone

An Interview with James T. Farrell

An Interview with Carl Sandburg

An Interview with Eudora Welty

An Interview with Esther Forbes

An Interview with Katharine Brush

An Interview with Lloyd C. Douglas

Miss Macinnes on the Pleasvres of Writing

An Interview with E. B. White, Essayist

An Interview with Faith Baldwin

An Interview with James Street

An Interview with Ellen Glasgow

The Story Behind "They Were Expendable"

Nancy Hale . . . an Analyzer Of the Feminine

An Interview with Christopher Morley

An Interview with Ben Ames Williams

An Interview with Marcia Davenport

An Interview with Bernard De Voto

Three Young Writers in Uniform Report from the Fronts

An Interview with Edna Ferber

An Interview with Carlos P. Romulo

Samuel Hopkins Adams Discusses A Long Writing Career

An Interview With Erich Maria Remarque
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Abortion, Identity Formation, and the Expatriate Woman Writer: H.D. and Kay Boyle in the Twenties, in Twentieth Century Literature
by Donna Hollenberg. 17 pgs.

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Faith of a (Woman) Writer (Chap. 8 "Kay Boyle: In a Woman's Voice")
by Alice Kessler-Harris, William McBrien. 358 pgs.

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Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the 20th century. Each of the 34 essays, contributed by some of today's most distinguished writers, speaks to the work of a particular 20th-century woman writer, and each constitutes a contribution to the scholarly debate.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Women's Studies

Copyright Acknowledgments

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1: Introduction

2: The (Woman) Writer

NOTES

3: Joyce Carol Oates's the Dead and Feminist Criticism

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4: Acts of Self-Creation: Female Identity in the Novels of Margaret Drabble

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5: Grave Endearing Traditions": Edith Wharton and the Domestic Novel"

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6: Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, and Their Nineteenth-Century Forerunners

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7: The Poetic World of Snezhina Slavova

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8: Kay Boyle: In a Woman's Voice

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9: Two Women: The Transformations

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10: Effects of Urbanization in the Novels of Christiane Rochefort

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11: Irmgard Keun: A German Deviation

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12: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Jean Rhys: What Rhys's Letters Show About That Relationship

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13: Literary Criticism

14: Miles Franklin: Chronicler of the Australian Bush and Early Feminist

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15: Edna St. Vincent Millay--Saint of the Modern Sonnet

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16: Domestic Comedy, Black Comedy, and Real Life: Shirley Jackson, a Woman Writer

17: Records of Survival: The Autobiographical Writings of Marieluise Fleisser and Marie Luise Kaschnitz

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18: Jhabvala's Fiction: The Passage from India

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19: Luise Rinser's Autobiographical Prose: Political Engagement and Feminist Awareness

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20: Women and Choice--A New Look at Simone De Beauvoir and the Second Sex

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21: Virginia, Virginius, Virginity

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22: Sexual Politics and Female Heroism in the Novels of Christina Stead

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23: Agnes Smedley's Cell Mates": A Writer's Discovery of Voice, Form, and Subject in Prison"

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24: The Transformation of Privilege in the Work of Elena Poniatowska

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25: Marguerite Yourcenar's Sexual Politics in Fiction, 1939

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26: A Way of Ordering Experience: A Study of Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye and Sula

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27: A Voice of Authority

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28: Charlotte Delbo, a Woman/Book

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29: The Case of the Dangling Signifier: Phallic Imagery in Eudora Welty's Moon Lake""

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30: An End to Torment: H.D.'s Metonymic Course

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31: Leslie Stephen Revisited: A New Fragment of Virginia Woolf's A Sketch of the Past""

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32: Defeating the False God: Janie's Self- Determination in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

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33: The Woman Warrior: Claiming Narrative Power, Recreating Female Selfhood

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34: In Search of Ordinary Human Happiness": Rebellion and Affirmation in Mary Gordon's Novels"

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The School of Femininity: A Book for and about Women as They Are Interpretated through Feminine Writers of Yesterday and Today ("Kay Boyle" begins on p. 278)
by Margaret Lawrence. 390 pgs.

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Part I The Nineteenth-Century School of Femininity

Chapter I We Write as Women

Chapter II Mary Wollstonecraft

Chapter III Jane Austen

Chapter IV The Brontë Sisters

Chapter V George Eliot

Part II The Twentieth-Century School of Femininity

Chapter VII Little Girl Pals

Chapter VIII Go-Getters

Chapter IX Matriarchs

Chapter X Helpmeets

Chapter XI Sophisticated Ladies

Chapter XII Priestesses

Chapter XIII Artistes
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American Novelists of Today ("Kay Boyle" begins on p. 44)
by Harry R. Warfel. 478 pgs.

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abbott to Asch

B Babson to Bushnell

C Cabell to Cuthbert

D D'Agostino to Duncan

E Eastman to Eunson

F Faralla to Furnas

G Gabriel to Guthrie

H Hale to Hurston

Iams to Idell

J Jackson to Joseph

K Kafka to Kuhn

La Farge to Lytle

M Mackay to Myers

N Nabokov to North

O O'Dell to Ostenso Scott O'Dell

Packer to Prouty

R Rand to Rylee

S Samuel to Sylvester

Taber to Turnbull

V Vance to Viertel Ethel Vance

W Wakeman to Wylie

Y Yates to Yoseloff

Zara

INDEX OF MARRIED NAMES AND PSEUDONYMS
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American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960 ("Kay Boyle" begins on p. 33)
by Harold Bloom. 177 pgs.

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Part of an ongoing series covering the texts and lives of the most important women writers of English, this book contains introductory essays by Harold Bloom and provides biographical information, a wide selection of critical excerpts, and complete bibliographies of 11 authors.

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American Women Fiction Writers 1900-1960: Volume One

Contents

The Analysis of Women Writers

Introduction

Djuna Barnes

Jane Bowles

Kay Boyle

Pearl S. Buck

Willa Cather

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Edna Ferber

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Zona Gale

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Ellen Glasgow

Caroline Gordon
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Authors Today and Yesterday: A Companion Volume to Living Authors (1933) ("Kay Boyle 1903-" begins on p. 85)
by Wilbur C. Hadden, Howard Haycraft, Stanley J. Kunitz. 730 pgs.

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Key to Pronunciations

Authors Today and Yesterday

Index
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Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties ("Kay Boyle and The Saturday Evening Post" begins on p. 128)
by Edmund Wilson. 536 pgs.

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Archibald Macleish and the Word

Van Wyck Brooks's Second Phase

The Boys in the Back Room

Max Eastman in 1941

T. K. Whipple

The Antrobuses And The Earwickers

Alexander Woollcott Of The Phalanx

The Poetry Of Angelica Balabanoff

Mr. Joseph E. Davies as a Stylist

Thoughts on Being Bibliographed

Through the Embassy Window: Harold Nicolson

Kay Boyle And The Saturday Evening Post

The Life and Times Of John Barrymore

"Never Apologize, Never Explain": The Art of Evelyn Waugh

John Mulholland And The Art of Illusion

What Became of Louis Bromfield

J. Dover Wilson on Falstaff

A Toast and a Tear For Dorothy Parker

A Treatise on Tales of Horror

A Guide to Finnegans Wake

A Novel by Salvador Dali

A Long Talk About Jane Austen

"You Can't Do This to Me!" Shrilled Celia

Aldous Huxley In The World Beyond Time

Vladimir Nabokov on Gogol

Katherine Anne Porter

A Picture to Hang in the Library: Brooks's Age of Irving

Why Do People Read Detective Stories?

Bernard Shaw on the Training Of a Statesman

ReÄxamining Dr. Johnson

Leonid Leonov: The Sophistication of a Formula

Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

Mr. Holmes, They Were The Footprints of a Gigantic Hound!

Glenway Wescott's War Work

A Cry from the Unquiet Grave

Tales of the Marvellous And The Ridiculous

Thackeray's Letters: A Victorian Document

Splendors and Miseries Of Evelyn Waugh

George Saintsbury's Centenary

Ambushing a Best-Seller

The Apotheosis Of Somerset Maugham

William Saroyan And His Darling Old Providence

Scar Wilde: "One Must Always Seek What is Most Tragic"

George Grosz in the United States

An Old Friend of the Family: Thackeray

Gilbert Without Sullivan

George Saintsbury: Gourmet and Glutton

Books of Etiquette and Emily Post

A Dissenting Opinion on Kafka

Jean-Paul Sartre: the Novelist And the Existentialist

The Musical Glasses of Peacock

Edith Wharton: a Memoir By An English Friend

The Sanctity of Baudelaire

Van Wyck Brooks on The Civil War Period

An Analysis of Max Beerbohm

The Original of Tolstoy's Natasha

The Most Unhappy Man on Earth

William Faulkner's Reply to The Civil-Rights Program

In Memory of Octave Mirbeau

A Revival of Ronald Firbank

Paul Rosenfeld: Three Phases

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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Kay Boyle (1902-1992)" begins on p. 45)
by Laurie Champion, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 412 pgs.

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Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a period that embraces two major artistic movements, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a review of the author's critical reception, and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume reflects the diversity of American culture through its coverage of African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Chinese American women writers.

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Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881-1954)

Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948)

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)

Djuna Barnes (Lydia Steptoe) (1892-1982)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Louise Bogan (1897-1970)

Marita Odette Bonner (1898-1971)

Kay Boyle (1902-1992)

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert (1894-1991)

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Anita Scott Coleman (1890-1960)

Rachel Crothers (1878-1958)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)

Alice Maude Ewell (1860-1946)

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)

Edna Ferber (1885-1968)

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958)

Zona Gale (1874-1938)

Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

Susan Keating Glaspell (1876-1948)

Jovita GonzÁLez de Mireles (1904-1983)

Caroline Gordon (1895-1981)

Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

Cleofas M. Jaramillo (1878-1956)

Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson (1877-1966)

Nella Larsen (1891-1964)

Margery Latimer (1899-1932)

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Mina Loy (1882-1966)

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)

Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962)

Carson Mccullers (1917-1967)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Mourning Dove (Hum-Um-Ishu-Mau) [Christine Quintasket] (1882?-1936)

Josephina Niggli (1910-1983)

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)

Lola Ridge (1873-1941)

Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)

Dorothy Scarborough (1878-1935)

Anne Spencer (1882-1975)

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924)

Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914)

Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948)

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Eudora Alice Welty (1909-)

Dorothy West (1907-1998)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)

Anzia Yezierska (1883?-1970)

Zitkala-šA (Gertrude Simmons Bonninu) (1876-1938)

Selected Bibliography

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