Finished Nancy Milford's Savage Beauty, a biography of the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I had forgotten what an incredibly talented sonnet writer Millay was. She was the first woman to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. An interesting but very messy life. She also wrote a libretto to an opera, which received more attention than the music of the composer. She wrote plays and acted in them. That experience as an actress, a performer, allowed her to turn recitals of her poetry into special events attended by thousands. How popular was she as a writer? In the early 1930's, in the midst of the worst economic depression in the history of the United State, she published a new volume of poems, fifty-two sonnets all related to a love affair she had experienced. At a time when no one had any extra money, 50,000 copies of the book were sold in the first three months of it being published! Milford does a wonderful job of researching Millay's life and presenting it to us in all its glories and degradations.

Now, starting to read James Lee Burke's novel, Light of the World.

Still working on my eighth novel. Have finished twenty chapters (126 pages). It's been moving along at a decent pace.