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Edna St. Vincent Millay

About Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay is a major figure in 20th-century American literature. She published poetry, plays, political writings, and a libretto for an opera set to music by Deems Taylor. She also went on cross- country reading tours and recited poetry over the radio to support the war effort.

Millay’s Life Born in Rockland, Maine in 1892 She was only nineteen years old when she published one of her most famous poems, Renascence. She published prose under the pseudonym: Nancy Boyd Her work was honored in 1923 with the Pulitzer Prize.

Millay: Jazz Age Millay’s work and life came to represent the modern, liberated woman of the Jazz age, free of the restrictions of the past As represented in her famous line of poetry: