Bestselling Author of Zelda to Discuss Acclaimed Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay at Simmons College
Nancy Milford Speaks on Long-Awaited "Savage Beauty" Sept. 19

BOSTON (September 9, 2002) - Edna St. Vincent Millay, the most famous poet of the Jazz Age, smoked in public, took both male and female lovers, and flouted convention. Through New York Times bestselling author Nancy Milford's critically acclaimed "Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay," the Maine poet who tormented herself with alcohol and morphine comes to life.

Milford will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19 in the 3rd Floor Conference Center at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway. The event is free and open to the public, and the building is wheelchair accessible.

Milford is the groundbreaking author of "Zelda," which spent twenty-nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and was translated into twelve languages. For "Savage Beauty," Milford earned the trust of Millay's sister Norma, the poet's literary executor, and gained an exclusive insight into Millay's letters, papers, and intimate diaries.

Milford was a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey in 1999, and an Annenberg Fellow at Brown University. She is a founder of the Writers' Room, has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Literary Lion at The New York Public Library.

The event is presented by New Words Live Bookstore and sponsored by the Simmons College Graduate Program in Gender/Cultural Studies, the Simmons Department of Women's Studies, and the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change. For more information, contact Diane Hammer in the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change at 617-521-2480.

Simmons College is a nationally recognized, small, private, predominantly women's university in the heart of Boston. It has undergraduate programs for women and graduate programs for women and men.

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