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Writers' lives inspire new writings.(The Dallas Morning News)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20011121
Author:Trimble, Bob

Men and women who lived by the word are featured in five new biographies.

_ "Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay," by Nancy Milford (Random House, $29.95); "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay," by Daniel Mark Epstein (Henry Holt, $26).

As much as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay and her work symbolized the Jazz Age, America's 1920s.

Born in 1892 to a poor family in Maine, Millay was writing for a youth magazine by the time she was a teenager, and won its gold medal for poetry when she was 14.

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