Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1892, Feb. 22 | Born, Rockland, Maine |
| 1909 | Graduated from high school, Camden, Maine |
| 1912 | “Renascence,” published in The Lyric Year, One Hundred Poems. New York: Mitchell Kennerley |
| 1913 | Attended Barnard College, New York, N.Y. |
| 1917 | Graduated, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Moved to Greenwich Village, New York, N.Y. Published Renascence, and Other Poems. New York: Mitchell Kennerley |
| 1917-1920 | Associated with Provincetown Theatre as actor and playwright Published poetry in magazines and newspapers |
| 1920 | Published A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Four Sonnets. New York: Frank Shay Published Aria da Capo, A Play in One Act. [London]; separate edition published in New York by Mitchell Kennerley, 1921 |
| 1921 | Published Second April. New York: Mitchell Kennerley Published Two Slatterns and a King; A Moral Interlude. Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co. Published The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama in Five Acts. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1921-1923 | Wrote for Vanity Fair under pseudonym Nancy Boyd while residing in Paris, France; traveled throughout Europe |
| 1922 | Published The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver. New York: Frank Shay |
| 1923 | Published The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1923 | Awarded Pulitzer Prize in poetry; first woman to receive the prize Married Eugen Boissevain (died 1949) |
| 1924 | Published Distressing Dialogues under pseudonym Nancy Boyd. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1925 | Moved to Steepletop farm, Austerlitz, N.Y. |
| 1927 | Debut of The King's Henchmen opera, Metropolitan Opera House, New York, N.Y. Published The King's Henchmen: A Play in Three Acts. New York: Harper & Brothers Published Fear in a pamphlet distributed by the Sacco-Vanzetti National League |
| 1928 | Published The Buck in the Snow, and Other Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1929 | Published Edna St. Vincent Millay's Poems Selected for Young People. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1931 | Published Fatal Interview, Sonnets. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1932 | Published The Princess Marries the Page, A Play in One Act. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1934 | Published Wine from These Grapes. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1936 | Published with George Dillon Flowers of Evil, from the French of Charles Baudelaire. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1937 | Published Conversation at Midnight. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1939 | Published Huntsman, What Quarry? New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1940 | Published Make Bright the Arrows; 1940 Notebook. New York: Harper & Brothers Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| 1941 | Published Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1943 | Published Collected Lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1950, Oct. 19 | Died, Austerlitz, N.Y. |
| 1950 | Norma Millay (sister, died 1986) named literary executor of Millay's estate and inheritor of Steepletop farm |
| 1952 | Publication of Letters, edited by Allan Ross Macdougall in cooperation with Norma Millay. New York: Harper |
| 1954 | Publication of Mine the Harvest, compiled by Norma Millay. New York: Harper |
| 1959 | Publication of Collected Poems, edited by Norma Millay. New York: Harper |