You get the sense that the person being written about comes to life in their own words. As with the Zelda bio, there is almost more quotation from Edna herself, through letters and journals, then there is narration from Milford, and I love it when an author does that. I would read anything Nancy Milford chose to write about, based on the strength of her biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, and Savage Beauty, her biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay on her first job as an actress in a traveling stock company I might pretend to myself as much and as long as I liked, - until the deep-vibrant note I had discovered in my voice … out-Hedda-ed Nazimova - yet was my native village unthrilled and unconvinced I was asked to serve ice-cream at church socials, and the grocer-boy called me by name …” “– oh, this was life! It was more than life, - it was art. Next biography on the biography shelf is Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St.
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