SOURCE: "Studs Terkel: An Interview," in Twentieth-Century Literature, Vol. 34, No. 3, Fall, 1988, pp. 304-9.

In the following interview, filmmaker Kelley Baker talks to famous social historian and radio personality Studs Terkel about his personal recollections of Boyle.

Edited in consultation with Studs Terkel from an April 26, 1986, interview in Chicago with filmmaker Kelley Baker. (From "No Past Tense Permitted," a documentary in progress, courtesy of Kelley Baker, Portland, Oregon.)

[Baker]: What do you remember about the first time you met Kay Boyle? What stands out in your mind?

[Terkel]: I remember an elegant looking person, at the time Nelson Algren, I believe, introduced me to Kay Boyle some years ago. I remember also having admired her before I'd met her. I remembered some of the short stories she wrote, a good number of them. When I think of Kay Boyle, I think of someone who has borne witness to the...