Edna St. Vincent Millay
Born February 22, 1892 (Rockland, Maine)
Died October 19, 1950 (Austerlitz, New York)
Poet and dramatist
Recognized as one of the most accomplished poets of the twentieth century, Edna St. Vincent Millay was an especially famous and popular cultural figure during the Roaring Twenties. Her work was widely admired by critics as well as a varied audience. Millay became a kind of spokesperson for the post-World War I generation of young people, especially women, who were expressing their rebellion against tradition and their insistence on freedom of thought and behavior. In her days as a young poet in New York's Greenwich Village artistic community, she embodied the new, sexually liberated woman of the period.
A Budding Talent
Edna St.Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, but spent most of her childhood living with her mother, Cora Buzzelle Millay, and two sisters in the nearby town of Camden. Millay was fondly called "Vincent" by her family and friends because her parents had planned to name their son Vincent. When they instead had a girl, they gave her the middle name of Vincent. The inability of Millay's father, Henry Tolman Millay, to act responsibly and support his family led to her parents' divorce
when she was eight, and she rarely saw her father after that.
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