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Article: A Biographer's Tale: Thirty years after her groundbreaking study of Zelda Fitzgerald, writer Nancy Milford returns with the captivating life story of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. (Books).(Brief Article)
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- Harper's Bazaar
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- September 1, 2001
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Thirty years after her groundbreaking study of Zelda Fitzgerald, writer Nancy Milford returns with the captivating life story of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Adriana Leshko meets the woman behind the women.
There's more to life than biography," says Nancy Milford with a devilish grin. She should know. More than 30 years ago, Milford gave us Zelda--an enthralling 426-page exploration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's mercurial wife and muse-and blew the cobwebs off a genre most closely associated with dead presidents and war generals. Its runaway success (it was on the New York Times best-seller list for 29 weeks) took the author by surprise and was part of the reason she ...
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Article: Charmed life: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. ...
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...Nancy Milford. New York: Random House, 2001, 550 ... 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 ...
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