Three Nelson Algren novels (Kay Boyle’s copies)
Nelson Algren (1909 – 1981) was an American writer, who articulated the world of "drunks, pimps, prostitutes, freaks, drug addicts, prize fighters, corrupt politicians, and hoodlums”. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name. In the late 1940s and early 1950s he was considered one of the best-known literary writers in America.
Kay Boyle (1902 –1992) was a significant American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. She is best known for her fiction, which often explored the intersections of personal and political themes. Her work contributed significantly to modernist literature, and she was an active participant in the expatriate literary scene in Paris during the 1920s. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and O. Henry Award winner.
These three Nelson Algren works are from the personal library of Kay Boyle, and each has her signature at the top of the ffep. As I happen to have a small personal collection of signed Kay Boyle books, I can attest that the signatures in these volumes compare closely with her other signatures.
Never Come Morning. Blue cloth, gilt spine. fair amount of rubbing to cloth. No dust jacket. Third Edition. Harper & Brothers, 1942.
Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway all the Way. Blue cloth, with pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965.
The Last Carousel. White cloth, with pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
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