Mar 12 2009
Edna St. Vincent Millay
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, American Poet~
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on February 22, 1892. She was an American lyrical poet and playwright, the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1922 for her volume The Harp-Weaver.She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd in her prose.
A feminist and political activist, Millay was known for her unconventional, bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs. Millay was raised by her divorced mother in Maine.
Talented in writing, she published her first poem at the age of 14. Her poem “Renascence” won a prize in the Lyric Anthology. Her acclaimed volume of poems A Few Figs from Thistles was published in 1920. A year later, she went to Europe as a foreign correspondent for Vanity Fair.
Edna St. Vincent Millay died on October 19, 1950.
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