Blanche McCrary Boyd

Blanche McCrary Boyd (born 1945)[1] is an American author whose novels are known for their eccentric characters. She is currently the Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Connecticut College.[2]

Boyd was born in Charleston, South Carolina,[1] the source of her "redneck" roots.[2] She started college at Duke University but transferred to Pomona College, graduating in 1967; she earned a master's degree from Stanford University in 1971. Boyd joined the Connecticut College faculty in 1982.[1]

Works

Boyd's novels include

  • Nerves (Daughters Pub. Co., 1973)
  • Mourning the Death of Magic (Macmillan, 1977)[3]
  • The Revolution of Little Girls (Vintage, 1991)[4]
  • Terminal Velocity (Vintage, 1997)[5]
  • Tomb of the Unknown Racist: A novel (Counterpoint, 2018)[6]

She has also published a collection of essays,

  • The Redneck Way of Knowledge: Down-home Tales (Vintage, 1978; 2nd ed., 1994)[7]

Recognition

Boyd won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993–1994, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship in 1988,[1] a Creative Writing Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission in 1982–1983[8] and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1967–1968.[1] She was also won the Lambda Literary Award[1] and the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction that same year.[9] She was nominated for the Lambda Award for Lesbian Fiction again in 1997.[10]

In 2019 she was named as a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel Tomb of the Unknown Racist.[11]

gollark: This backlit keyboard thing is very helpful when the lights mysteriously fail!
gollark: The CN revolution was stupid.
gollark: What will take over a year?
gollark: GDPR is the law, "privacy" is a general principle I happen to like.
gollark: "Privacy" isn't a law.

References
  1. White, Amy L. (July 21, 2016). "Boyd, Blanche McCrary". South Carolina Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
  2. Silber, Emily (April 10, 2012). "From Addiction to Fiction: A look into the life of Professor Blanche Boyd". The College Voice.
  3. Reviews of Mourning the Death of Magic:
  4. Reviews of The Revolution of Little Girls:
  5. Reviews of Terminal Velocity:
  6. Reviews of Tomb of the Unknown Racist:
  7. Reviews of The Redneck Way of Knowledge:
    • Wheaton, Liz (January–February 1983). "Overrated Accuracy". Southern Exposure. 11: 68–69.
    • Houston, James D. (Spring 1983). Western American Literature. 18 (1): 72–73. JSTOR 43018792.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • "Review". Kirkus Reviews. May 1982.
  8. Moore, Madeline R. (1993). "Blanche McCrary Boyd (1945–)". In Pollack, Sandra; Knight, Denise D. (eds.). Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Press. p. 75. ISBN 9780313282157.
  9. "The Publishing Triangle Awards". The Publishing Triangle: the association for lesbians and gay men in publishing. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  10. "1997 Lambda Literary Award". FictionDB. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  11. Koster, Rick (March 7, 2019). "Conn College English professor is finalist for prestigious award". Associated Press.

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