"[3] Boyd started college at Duke University, though left after getting a C+ in her first English class and being asked to leave because she was "drunk all the time".
[4] She married a man who "wouldn't put up with her drinking," and transferred to Pomona College where she graduated in 1967.
[4][5] Boyd wrote her first novel in hopes of combatting her lesbianism, in a sense, or at least to make something sad out of it.
[6] Terminal Velocity, the follow-up to The Revolution of Little Girls, was published in 1997, and it was called “A rollicking, kaleidoscopic trip through the drug-tinged lesbian-feminist counter-culture of the 1970s”.
[12] Boyd now acts as the Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Connecticut College.
After leaving her husband, Boyd moved to Vermont to protest the Vietnam War and live on a commune.
After her stint as a rock and roll critic, Boyd moved back to South Carolina, where she continued to struggle with drug and alcohol addition until 1980, when she says she had a moment of clarity when she watched her friend shoot herself.