Pulitzer Prize winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millary (2/22/1892) was born in Rockland, Maine. After her parents divorced, her mother raised Edna and her two sisters to be independent, promoting their appreciation of music and literature. With her mother's support, Edna entered her poem "Renasence" intoa contest, winning 4th place and publication. Her success led to a scholarship at Vassar, where she continued as a poet and also became a playwrigt and actress. While at Vassar, she won the Pulitzer for her book The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems.
Graduating in 1917, Millary published Renasence and Other Poems. She moved to Greenwich Village in New York, leading a notoriously Bohemian lift while continuing to publish poetry. In 1923 she married Eugen Boissevain, who gave up his own career to manage Millay's literary career. Edna died in her home 1950, the year after her husband had died.