"B" is for Boyd, Blanche McCrary [b. 1945]. Writer, educator. After graduating from Pomona College and receiving an M.A. from Stanford, Boyd—a Charleston native--joined the faculty of Connecticut College. She has been awarded several distinguished fellowships including a National Endowment for the Arts in Fiction Fellowship and a Guggenheim. Boyd has published four novels: Nerves; Mourning the Magic of Death; The Revolution of Little Girls; and Terminal Velocity. Her fiction reveals a deep concern with the culture of the American South. Much of her work addresses civil rights injustices or gender identity issues within Southern culture. Her essays, The Redneck Way of Knowledge: Down Home Tales, features autobiographical accounts of the South Carolina she knows so well. Blanche McCrary Boyd is known for capturing both the tumult of the time and a region’s response to social change.
"B" is for Boyd, Blanche McCrary
