![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chosen by „Entertainment Weekly” as the #1 nonfiction book of the year. Nancy Lee Milford (ne Winston Ma March 29, 2022) was an American biographer. Vincent Millay, the most famous poet of the Jazz Age. Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Lorrie Moore, The New York Review of Books Savage Beauty is irresistible. Millay was an American originalone of those rare characters, like Sylvia Plath and Ernest Hemingway, whose lives were even more dramatic than their art.Ī „New York Times” Notable Book, this landmark biography uncovers for the first time the dark side of Edna St. Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millays papers, and what she found. Chosen by USA Today as one of the top ten books of the year, Savage Beauty is a triumph in the art of biography. ![]() Thirty years after her landmark biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, Nancy Milford returns with an iconic portrait of this passionate, fearless woman who obsessed America even as she tormented herself. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and married), flouted convention sensationally, and became the embodiment of the New Woman. Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. ![]()
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