Blanche Boyd Papers, 1957-1984

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Blanche Boyd Papers, 1957-1984

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/boyd/

Blanche M. Boyd is a writer raised in South Carolina. She has also lived and worked in California, Vermont, and New York. The collection consists of correspondence (1963-1984); notes, drafts, and proofs of her books , , and ; reports on the Greensboro shootings (November 1979); and materials on the Democratic National Convention of 1980. Short stories, essays, reviews of Boyd's work, and photographs are also included. Many of the letters are long and substantive, including some retained copies of Boyd's own letters. Her report on the Greensboro shootings is based on a large number of newspaper and magazine clippings, also included in the collection, as well as interviews. Materials on Boyd's trip to China in 1983 are also found in the collection. Nerves Mourning the Death of Magic The Redneck Way of Knowledge

10 Linear Feet; 662 Items

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David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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Boyd, Blanche M., 1945-

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Blanche McCrary Boyd (b. 1945) is an American author raised in South Carolina. She has also lived and worked in California, Vermont, and New York. Along with publishing collections of essays (including The Redneck Way of Knowledge ), articles, short stories, and screenplays, Boyd has written 4 novels: Nerves, Mourning the Death of Magic, The Revolution of Little Girls, and Terminal Velocity . She has taught at Connecticut College since 1982. From the guide to the Blanche Boyd Papers,...