Nearly a century ago, Edna St. Vincent Millay was a literary superstar. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry in 1923. A feminist and free spirit well ahead of her time, she was courted by smitten bohemians of both sexes. Famous for her love sonnets, she also wrote an influential antiwar play and the libretto to a popular opera. Full of wit and audacity, she epitomized the Jazz Age.
Millay grew up mostly in Camden, Maine, but she s
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