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Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on February 22, 1892 in a town called Rockland, Main. Eight years after Millay was born her mother, Cora Millay, divorced her father, Henry Tollman Millay. Edna, her mother, and her sisters moved to Camden, Maine where Edna attended public high school. As a young girl Cora Millay encouraged her daughters to study music and literature and to be ambitious and independent. At school she worked for as editor in chief of the school news paper. Some of her early writings were published in the St. Nicholas Magazine. Her best piece, however, was titled "Renascence". It relieved much attention from an anthology called The Lyric Year, and Millay was even offered a scholarship to attend Vassar College by a young woman who heard Millay read her poem. While at Vassar Millay wrote poetry, plays, acted, starred in her own play, The Princess Marries the Page, and studied literature and languages. She graduated in 1917.      Millay then moved to New York and lived in a place called Greenwich Village. Millay acted while she was there, and earned money by writing poetry, and writing and directing plays. Some of her writings were successful and she was rewarded for it. In 1927 Millay was arrested for joining a protest. From this experience she wrote "Justice Denied in Massachusetts".      Over time Millay continued to write and in 1923 Millay married a man named Eugen Boissevain. Millay and Boissevain moved to Steepletop in Austerlitz, New York in a farmhouse. Boissevain helped Millay with her work by setting up times when Millay read to the public and scheduled time for her public appearances. Boissevain helped Millay to become quite well known.      In 1944 Millay suffered many hard times. She became extremely nervous and often had nervous breakdowns and couldn't write. Her husband died in 1949 of lung cancer. After Boissevain's death, Millay became very dependent on alcohol. On October 19, 1950 Millay died sitting at the foot of her stairs all alone, many say she had a heart attack. No one will forget Edna St. Vincent Millay and the beautiful writing she produced.      (Picture of Edna St. Vincent Millay www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poe ms/poet-esm.jpg)                    (Pictured here is Edna St. Vincent Millay http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/millay/millay.htm )

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