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Edna St. Vincent Millay, pen name Nancy Boyd

Feb 22, 1892, Rockland, Maine – Oct 19, 1950, New York

My candle burns at both ends;

It will not last the night,

But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends

It gives a lovely light!

She graduated from Vassar College and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to do so, and the Robert Frost Medal in 1943. She was known for her feminist activism.

She was an extrodanary woman and her light did not last the night. She was only 58 when she died. Look her up, start with Wikepedia. Her life is more like a movie or a book than a real, ordinary life.