Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, (Paperback)

from tututhefirst

Nancy Mitford presents a thorough, insightful, compelling, and penetrating look at one of America's premier poets. Working with Ms. Millay's sister Norma, who holds most of the papers not in the Library of Congress, she was able to construct an impressive and deeply detailed biography. In fact, I...

from onefear

Loved this book. Read it first, then picked up Epstein's bio of Millay, published the same year, after reading some on-line reviews. Many don't like Milford's book because of its length and, I would say, her tendency to report rather than process the results of her in-depth research. I enjoy both...

from onefear

Loved this book. Read it first, then picked up Epstein's bio of Millay, published the same year, after reading some on-line reviews. Many don't like Milford's book because of its length and, I would say, her tendency to report rather than process the results of her in-depth research. I enjoy both...

from Dorritt

Per the forward to this long bio, Milford's the first to have been granted access to the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's private letters and journals, long held in keeping by her sister Norma. This helps explain why this narrative is so compelling: having access to the subject's own journals and l...

from -Cee-

I must say up front that I generally don't find biographies to be among my favorites. I've always said that a book should not be rated based on whether or not you like the characters. It seems you should not have to be in love with admirable traits - nor despise the failings - of a character in o...