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From: Victoria
Date: 20011101
Author:ZARIN, CYNTHIA

Thirty years after her superb biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, Nancy Milford brings us the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.

WE HAVE NAMED THE LITTLE ONE Edna Vincent Millay. Don't you think that's pretty?" wrote the baby's aunt to her brother, in February 1892. The infant was born with a lucky caul, but her mellifluous name was no happy accident. The child's mother, Cora, had a taste for lyric poetry and literary ambitions herself, a fact that would later haunt the intense relationship between mother and daughter.

If the baby had been a boy, he ...

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