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Edna St. Vincent Millay was raised in a small Maine town
by a highly supportive divorced mother, who encouraged her
daughters to read, develop their musical talents, and follow
their ambitions. Millay graduated from Vassar College and
then moved to the Greenwich Village section of New York City,
home to avant-garde artists and political radicals. She acted
and wrote plays for the Provincetown Players, located in the
Village, and became known as the epitome of the modern woman
because of her vivacity, sexual liberation, and independent
spirit. She was also an activist who protested the Sacco and
Vanzetti executions and argued for America's early entrance
into World War II. Her works include Renascence and Other
Poems (1917) and her Pulitzer prize-winning Ballad
of the Harp-Weaver (1923).
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