title: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
author:  Nancy Milford 
description: An incendiary cocktail of literary ambition, fame, sexual adventure and addiction.<br /><i>Newsweek</i><br /><br />Perfectly outstanding...Milfords biography takes the whole of Millays heaving, grieving, ecstatic life into account in a way that is almost loving, always respectful, even when blunt truth and candor are necessary....Masterful.<br />Kaye Gibbons, <i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i><br /><br />Original and spellbinding.<br />Lorrie Moore, <i>The New York Review of Books</i><br /><br /><b>Savage Beauty</b> is irresistible.<br />Amanda Foreman<br /><br />One seldom sees this level of brilliant, hands-on research in contemporary literary biography. The result is this compelling, keenly perceptive life of Edna St. Vincent Millaywith its own savage beauty.<br />Toni Morrison <br /><br />Riveting and revealing...<b>Savage Beauty</b> sweeps before it all previous biographies of Millay, which by contrast seem uninformed and too discreet.<br />J. D. McClatchy, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>
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  # ALSO BY NANCY MILFORD
  
  
  _Zelda: A Biography_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2001 by Nancy Winston Milford
  
  
  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American  
  Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by  
  Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada  
  by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
  
  
  RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks  
  of Random House, Inc.
  
  
  Owing to limitations of space, acknowledgments of permission to quote  
  from unpublished materials and previously published materials will be  
  found following the Index.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  
  Milford, Nancy.  
  Savage beauty : the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay / Nancy Milford.  
  p. cm.  
  eISBN: 978-1-58836-094-6  
  1\. Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892–1950. 2. Poe