Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Nancy Milford

Book, 2001

Publication

Random House Trade Paperbacks (2002), Edition: Reprint, 608 pages

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Nominee — Biography — 2001)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: Edna St. Vincent Millay had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Publisher's Summary: Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and married), flouted convention sensationally, and became the embodiment of the New Woman.

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