Editing Kay Boyle (section)

==Early years==
The granddaughter of a publisher, Boyle was born in [[St. Paul, Minnesota]], and grew up in several cities but principally in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]]. She had one sibling, an elder sister, Joan (1900–1993), later Mrs. Detweiler. Their father, Howard Peterson Boyle, was a lawyer, and their mother was Katherine (Evans) Boyle, a literary and social activist who believed the wealthy had an obligation to help the financially less fortunate. In later years, Kay Boyle championed integration and civil rights. She advocated banning nuclear weapons, and American withdrawal from the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name=obit/>

Boyle was educated at the exclusive [[The Shipley School|Shipley School]] in [[Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania]], then studied architecture at the [[University of Cincinnati College of Applied Science|Ohio Mechanics Institute]] in Cincinnati. Interested in the arts,  she studied violin at the [[Cincinnati Conservatory of Music]] before settling in [[New York City]] in 1922 where she found work as a writer/editor with a small magazine.<ref name=obit/>