Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
of Nancy Milford
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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.Thirty years after her landmark biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, Nancy Milford returns with an iconic portrait of this passionate, fearless woman who obsessed America even as she tormented herself. Chosen by USA Today as one of the top ten books of the year, Savage Beauty is a triumph in the art of biography. Millay was an American original--one of those rare characters, like Sylvia Plath and Ernest Hemingway, whose lives were even more dramatic than their art.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 608 pages
- Publisher Random House Trade
- Publication Date September 10th 2002
- First Publication 01/01/01
- Language English
- ISBN 9780375760815
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
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