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Nancy Milford


Born
in Dearborn, Michigan, The United States
March 26, 1938

Died
March 29, 2022

Genre
Biography


Nancy Lee Winston Milford (March 26, 1938–March 29, 2022) was an American biographer.

Nancy Lee Winston was born in Dearborn, Michigan. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1959, then earned an M.A. (1964) and a Ph.D. (1972) at Columbia University. Her dissertation was on Zelda Fitzgerald.

Milford is best known for her book Zelda, about F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda Fitzgerald. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, spent 29 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, and has since been translated into 17 languages. --Wikipedia ...more

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Zelda
3.82 avg rating — 10,426 ratings — published 1970 — 59 editions
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Savage Beauty: The Life of ...
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The Selected Poetry
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Blessing
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“I am wild, if you like; but I stayed in my burrow a long, long time, - nibbling your straws and snapping at your fingers, but always just a little out of reach. Until at last I got to trust you so much that one day I ventured out for a minute, - and you threw rocks at me. And I will never come out again.”
― Nancy Milford, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely Went to their deaths more proud than this one went. Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping I will confess; but that’s permitted me; Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free. If I had loved you less or played you slyly I might have held you for a summer more, But at the cost of words I value highly, And no such summer as the one before. Should I outlive this anguish—and men do— I shall have only good to say of you.”
― Nancy Milford, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury.”
― Nancy Milford, Zelda
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