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Admirable Women
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Edna St. Vincent Millay was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for #Poetry (1923) for her collection, "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, A Few Figs from Thistles & Eight Sonnets in American Poetry." One of the most celebrated literary figures of the early 20th century. She died #OTD in 1950.

Clay Risen
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Here’s a fact that lives rent free in my head: Edna St Vincent Millay took Edmund Wilson’s virginity (according to Lewis Dabney’s biography of Wilson).

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