八十七岁的美国当代女作家、著名社会活动家凯·博伊尔的名字对中国读者可能是陌生的,但作为美国本世纪二十年代流亡巴黎“迷惘一代”左岸作家中唯一幸存者,本世纪风云的见证人,她对当代美国文学的贡献和建立在美国政治与社会活动生活突出影响上的特殊权威,她在当今美国文学界得到了少有的肯定。在她至今六、七十年的创作生涯中,她发表了四十五本各种体裁、题材的作品。她于一九三五年和一九四一年两度获美国欧·亨利最佳短篇小说创 The name of 87-year-old American contemporary woman writer and famous social activist Kay Boyle may be unfamiliar to Chinese readers. However, as the only survivor of the Left Bank writers in the “lost generation” of Paris in exile in the 1920s in the United States, She is the witness of this century, her contribution to contemporary American literature and her establishment of a special authority on the prominent impact of the political and social life in the United States. She has received rare accusations in the American literary world today. In her six decades and seventy years of her career, she published forty-five works of various genres and themes. In 1935 and 1941 she was twice best American short story by Henry