biography
| name: |
Millay, Edna St Vincent
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pronunciation:
[milay]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1892–1950)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Rockland, Maine, USA. Her first poem was published when she was a student at Vassar College, NY. Moving to Greenwich Village, then at its height as a meeting place for artists and writers, she published A Few Figs from Thistles (1920), from which the line ‘My candle burns at both ends’ came to represent youthful escapades. In 1923 came The Harp Weaver and Other Poems, for which she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. She published many other works, including three verse plays, and wrote the libretto for the successful American opera, The King's Henchman (1927). |
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