Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was a prolific 20th century writer, Guggenheim Fellow, and two-time O. Henry Award recipient. Boyle wrote novels and poetry, and worked as a journalist throughout her career. In the early 1950s, Boyle was blacklisted by many major magazines and removed from her foreign correspondent position at The New Yorker due to suspected communist sympathies. Both Boyle and her husband Joseph von Franckenstein were interrogated and subsequently...