Edna St Vincent Millay
1892-1950
Pulitzer Price winning poet. Edna St. Vincent Millay is famous for her
reflections on love, which were illuminated in her many sonnets about
romantic impermanence and the heart’s unreliability.
Millay was as famous during her lifetime for her beauty, unconventional
lifestyle, and outspoken politics as for her poetry.
Husband: Eugen Jan Boissevain (m. 1923; died 1949) Yes, the same Eugen
Jan Boissevain who had once been married to Inez
Milholland.
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