Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892 - 1950) U.S.A.
Poet, and playwright
Born in Rockland, Maine, a bisexual woman, graduated from Vassar College (1917) having already won fame with the publication of Renascence (1912), the title poem of her first volume Renascence and Other Poems (1917), which exhibited technical virtuosity, startling freshness, and a hunger for beauty. She then moved to Greenwich Village in New York, where she wrote poetry nad plays, as well as journalistic pieces.
 In late 1912 she spent some months in Vienna, Austria, travelled through Italy and Albania, and went to Paris where she met Djuna Barnes, with whom she had a strained relationship, partly for reason of literary rivalry but also partly because Millay embarked on an affair with Barne's partner, the sculptress Thelma Woods.
Her work include: A Few Figs from Thistles (1920), and Second April (1921). While living in Greenwich Village, she became associated with the Princetown Players, for whom she wrote The Princess Marries the Page (1918), Aria da Capo (1919), and Two Slatterns and a King (1921), all one-act satirical fantasies. The Lamp and the Bell (1921) is a five-act poetic drama.
Other of her works were: The Harp-Weaver and Other Pems (1923, Pulitzer Price), The Buck in the Snow (1828), Fatal Interview (1931), Wine for These Grapes (1934), Conversation at Midnight (1937), Huntsman, What Quarry? (1939), Make Bright the Arrows (1940), The Murder of Lidice (1942),
Her Collected Sonnets appeared in 1941, Collected Lyrics in 1943, and Collected Poems in 1956. Her Letters where published posthumously, as well as Mine the Harvest (1954) a collection of 66 of her poems.
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