Blanche McCrary Boyd


Blanche McCrary Boyd 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.
Boyd was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the source of her "redneck" roots.
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.

Works

Boyd's novels include
She has also published a collection of essays,
Boyd won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993–1994, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship in 1988, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission in 1982–1983 and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1967–1968. She was also won the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction that same year. She was nominated for the Lambda Award for Lesbian Fiction again in 1997.
In 2019 she was named as a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel Tomb of the Unknown Racist.