Kay Boyle
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Kay Boyle was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. Boyle is best known for her fiction, which often explored the intersections of personal and political themes.
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Kay Boyle with Bay Area historian Connie Young Yu in San Francisco, 1976.
Caresse Crosby
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Caresse Crosby was an American publisher and writer. Time called her the "literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris." As an American patron of the arts, she and her seco
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…innovative literary magazines and made friends with many of the writers and artists living in Paris around Montparnasse. Among her friends were Harry and Caresse Crosby who owned the Black Sun Press and published her first work of fiction, a collection titled Short Stories. They became such good friends that in 1928…
Caresse Crosby and her whippet Narcisse, 1922
Jacob's brassiere, from the original patent application.
Nantasket Beach and the Nantasket Hotel, State Bath House and Paragon Park in the background, circa 1910.
Harry and Polly Crosby on the day of their marriage on September 9, 1922.