Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She also wrote pros
Millay, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933
Millay photographed by Arnold Genthe in 1914 in Mamaroneck, New York
Millay's 1923–24 home: 75+1⁄2 Bedford Street, Greenwich Village (2013 photo)
Millay, c. 1920
Steepletop
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Steepletop, also known as the Edna St. Vincent Millay House, was the farmhouse home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband Eugen Jan Boissevain, in Austerlitz, New York
Edna St. Vincent Millay
…Chicago. Their relationship inspired the sonnets in the collection Fatal Interview, which she published in 1931. In 1925, Boissevain and Millay bought Steepletop near Austerlitz, New York, which had once been a 635-acre (257 ha) blueberry farm. They built a barn (from a Sears Roebuck kit), and then a writing…
Front (south) elevation of main house, 2014
Former guest house, currently used as the Steepletop Visitors Center
Millay's writing cabin