“A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public, and cannot…” — Edna St. Vincent Millay

“A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public, and cannot expect to be treated as if he were a private individual.”

Recognising the exposure and vulnerability involved in publishing · Preface

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

About Edna St. Vincent Millay

22 February 1892–19 October 1950

Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on 22 February 1892 in Rockland, Maine, and died on 19 October 1950 at her home in Austerlitz, New York. During her lifetime she became one of the most visible and commercially successful poets in the United States: a Pulitzer Prize winner, a celebrated public reader, a playwright, a…

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