Article: Charmed life: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Nancy Milford. New York: Random House, 2001, 550 pp., $29.95 hardcover.

The first biography I remember feeling I couldn't put down was Nancy Milford's Zelda. The first poems I remember being bowled over by were Edna St. Vincent Millay's. What a treat then, I thought, to have in my hands a new biography of Millay by Milford. It had been a long time since I'd read either writer, but having once done so I still trusted both women. Each had left me with a sense that I had learned something about living that I might just need to know. So it was in happy anticipation of renewing my acquaintance with them that I picked up Savage Beauty and began to read.

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