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3 unusual facts about Kay Boyle


Cagnes-sur-Mer

In the late 1920s, Cagnes-sur-Mer became a residence for many American renowned literary and art figures, such as Kay Boyle, George Antheil and Harry and Caresse Crosby.

Kay Boyle

Her husband was dismissed by Roy Cohn from his post in the Public Affairs Division of the U.S. State Department, and Boyle lost her position as foreign correspondent for The New Yorker, a post she had held for six years.

Most of her papers and manuscripts are in the Morris Library at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.



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