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."
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 for Ballad of the Harp-Weaver in 1923 and wrote a wildly popular opera, The King's Henchman, in 1927.
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