Edna St Vincent Millay Biography

Edna St Vincent Millay biography

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NAME: Edna St Vincent Millay
OCCUPATION: Playwright, Poet
BIRTH DATE: February 22, 1892
DEATH DATE: October 19, 1950
EDUCATION: Vassar College

PLACE OF BIRTH: Rockland, Maine
PLACE OF DEATH: Austerlitz, New York

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was such a bright young thing of the jazz age that she coined the term "My candle burns at both ends."

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After graduating from Vassar College, Edna St. Vincent Millay moved to Greenwich Village and became a lively figure of the avant garde artist scene, coining the term "My candle burns at both ends" in a poem. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, and wrote a wildly popular opera, The King's Henchman in 1927.