Savage Beauty

by Milford, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780786239658
• ISBN10: 0786239654
• Edition: Large
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr

Summary

An authorized portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet draws on Millay's intimate diary, letters, and other papers to capture her flamboyant and turbulent life.

Author Biography

Nancy Milford's Zelda, a number one New York Times bestseller, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and was translated into twelve languages. Milford was an Annenberg Fellow at Brown University in 1995 and a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey in 1999. She has taught at the University of Michigan and at Vassar College, and she will be in the American Studies Program at Princeton University in the fall of 2001. She is a founder of the Writers Room, has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Literary Lion at the New York Public Library. She lives in New York

Table of Contents

Prologue	9	(10)
BOOK ONE The Lyric Years: 1892--1923	19	(452)
This Double Life	21	(144)
The Escape Artist	165	(98)
Greenwich Village: Bohemia	263	(100)
``Paris Is Where the 20th Century Was''	363	(108)
BOOK TWO Steepletop: 1923--1950	471	(466)
Love and Fame	473	(96)
Love and Death	569	(46)
The Girl Poet	615	(96)
The Great Tours	711	(90)
Addiction	801	(58)
The Dying Fall	859	(78)
Acknowledgments	937	(2)
Notes	939