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| - Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) was a human poet from the United States of America. She was born in Rockland, Maine. In 1923 she became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She died at her house in Austerlitz, New York, from a fall down the stairs. In 2270, Lieutenant Commander Piper considered naming her first ship after Millay, but ultimately named it the Banana Republic instead. (TOS novel: Battlestations!)
- Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, to Cora Lounella (Buzzelle), a nurse, and Henry Tollman Millay, a schoolteacher who would later become superintendent of schools. Her middle name is derived from St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, where her uncle's life had been saved just prior to her birth. Millay rose to fame with her poem "Renascence" (1912), and on the strength of it was awarded a scholarship to Vassar College. After her graduation in 1917, she moved to New York City.
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| - Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) was a human poet from the United States of America. She was born in Rockland, Maine. In 1923 she became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She died at her house in Austerlitz, New York, from a fall down the stairs. In 2270, Lieutenant Commander Piper considered naming her first ship after Millay, but ultimately named it the Banana Republic instead. (TOS novel: Battlestations!)
- Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, to Cora Lounella (Buzzelle), a nurse, and Henry Tollman Millay, a schoolteacher who would later become superintendent of schools. Her middle name is derived from St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, where her uncle's life had been saved just prior to her birth. In 1904, Cora officially divorced Millay's father for financial irresponsibility, but they had been separated for some years prior. Struggling financially, Cora and her three daughters, Edna (who would later insist on being called "Vincent"), Norma and Kathleen, moved from town to town, counting on the kindness of friends and relatives. Though poor, Cora never traveled without her trunk full of classic literature — including William Shakespeare, John Milton, and more — which she enthusiastically read to her children in her Irish brogue. Finally the family settled in Camden, Maine, moving into a small house on the property of Cora's well-heeled aunt. It was in this modest house in the middle of a field that Millay wrote the first of the poems that would catapult her to literary fame. Cora taught her daughters to be independent and to speak their minds, which did not always sit well with the authority figures in Millay's life. Millay preferred to be called "Vincent" rather than Edna, which she found plain — her grade school principal, offended by her frank attitudes, refused to call her Vincent — instead, he called her by any woman's name that started with a V. At Camden High School, Millay began nurturing her budding literary talents, starting at the school's literary magazine, The Megunticook, and eventually having some of her poetry published in the popular children's magazine St. Nicholas, the Camden Herald and, significantly, the anthology Current Literature, all by the age of 15. Millay rose to fame with her poem "Renascence" (1912), and on the strength of it was awarded a scholarship to Vassar College. After her graduation in 1917, she moved to New York City.
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