Savage beauty : the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay / Nancy Milford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milford, Nancy.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 553 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

Advance Uncorrected Proofs.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2001]

Summary:

"If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as audacious in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. She embodied, in her reckless fancy, the spirit of the New Woman, and gave America its voice." "The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Millay was dazzling in the performance of her self. Her voice was an instrument of seduction, and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Young women styled themselves in her image - fairylike, taunting, free. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well." "Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an unimaginable treasure. Hundreds of letters flew back and forth between the three sisters and their mother - and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind the journals of Sylvia Plath."--Jacket.

Contents:

The lyric years, 1892-1923

This double life

The escape artist

Greenwich Village: Bohemia

"Paris is where the 20th century was"

Steepletop: 1923-1950

Love and fame

Love and death

The girl poet

The great tours

Addiction

The dying fall.

Notes:

Book description and publication information on initial page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

925525009