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A Girl Called Vincent: The Life of Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
208 pp.
| Chicago |
April, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-1-61373-172-7$18.99
(3)
YA
This thorough biography limns the life of the acclaimed Jazz Age poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, from her poverty-stricken childhood in Maine to her celebrity as the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. A path-breaking feminist, Vincent had an irrepressible, bohemian spirit that sparks this volume. Photographs and poems further illuminate the story of an extraordinary life. Reading list, timeline. Bib., ind.