Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, and grew up in Camden with her two sisters, raised by a divorced mother who worked as a home nurse. She entered Vassar at twenty-one on a scholarship and settled in Greenwich Village in 1917. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 and married Eugen Boissevain the same year, a widower who soon gave up his business to look after her; her reading tours were very successful, and she loved both men and women. She was found dead at the foot of her staircase in 1950; her doctor concluded that it was a heart attack.

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