1892-02-22

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, American writer was born (d. 1950); It’s time for a new biography of this American poet, whose name sounds like the first line of a dirty limerick and whose life was mostly a bisexual romp, even though early biographies make it difficult to know for sure. For the moment the poems themselves will have to serve as biography, making it difficult to believe that the poet who dreamed of a lover with a “pink camellia-bud…beside a silver comb” was dreaming of anything other than another woman.