Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay (Rockland, February 22, 1892 – Austerlitz, October 19, 1950) She was an American poet. He was awarded the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the third woman ever to receive the award[1] He was known for his feminist activism and for his many romances. He also wrote prose works under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. the poet Richard Wilbur she said, “He wrote some of the finest sonnets of the century.”[2]

She was the daughter of a nurse, Cora Lounella, and a school teacher, Henry Tollman Millay, who became superintendent of schools. Her name comes from the middle of the San Vincenzo Manhattan (New York), where her uncle saved her life shortly before her birth.