As a family, they were like real-life Little Women, with a touch of Mommie Dearest. 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. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. ONE OF ESQUIRE’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself. Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act.
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