Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, NancyMilford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself. 

If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vin- cent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Milford calls her book “a family romance”—for the love between the three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. As a family, they were like real-life Little Women, with a touch of Mommie Dearest. 

Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay’s papers, and what she found was an extraordinary treasure. Written with pas- sion and flair, Savage Beauty is an iconic portrait of a woman’s life.