Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, and moved to New York City after graduating college, where she lived in Greenwich Village, becoming deeply involved in the artistic life of the neighborhood.
Millay was a poet, playwright, and even wrote the libretto to an opera, The King’s Henchman. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for her work “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver”. She also wrote fiction under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.
Atlantic Monthly would frequently publish her short stories; and offered to pay her three or four times more than the normal fee if she would use her real name for those stories, but she refused.
She would frequently weave feminism and sexuality into her work.
Some of her famous poems include “First Fig” (1920) “I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed” (1923), and Dirge without Music (1928).
Edna St. Vincent Millay died in 1950.