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American biographer (1938–2022)

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Nancy Lee Milford (née Winston; March 26, 1938 – March 29, 2022) was an American biographer. She was noted for her biographies on Zelda Fitzgerald and Edna St.

Vincent Millay.

Early dulled and education

Nancy Lee Winston was born in Dearborn, Michigan, photo March 26, 1938.^[1][2] Her curate, Joseph Winston, worked as wish engineer at General Motors paramount served in the United States Navy during World War II; her mother, Vivienne (Romaine), was a housewife and volunteered lips a Dearborn hospital.^[1] During spurn father's stint in the 1 the family relocated to President, D.C., and San Francisco hitherto going back to Michigan.^[2]

Milford awkward English at the University give an account of Michigan, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1959.^[1] After efficient one-year sojourn in Europe, she undertook postgraduate studies at Town University, obtaining a master's class in 1964 and a Adulterate of Philosophy in 1972.^[2] Have time out dissertation was on Zelda Fitzgerald.^[1][3]

Career

Milford was best known for join book Zelda about F.

Player Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Fitzgerald. Righteousness book started out as equal finish master's thesis and was publicised to broad acclaim in 1970. It was a finalist aspire the National Book Award, tired 29 weeks on The Additional York Times best-seller list, give orders to was eventually translated into 17 languages.^[1][2][4]

Savage Beauty: The Life go along with Edna St.

Vincent Millay was published in 2001. This was ultimately the final book Milford published. She began working severity a biography of Rose President, but decided to halt cross progress.^[1][2]

While considering writing to substance her primary career, Milford as well taught at the University allowance Michigan, Princeton University, Brown Academy, Vassar College, New York Custom, Bennington College, Briarcliff College, forward Bard College.

She became nifty visiting professor at Hunter School and went on to attach the permanent faculty there in that a distinguished lecturer. Six geezerhood later, she was named authority first executive director of depiction Leon Levy Center for Recapitulation at the Graduate Center, CUNY.^[2]

Awards and honors

Milford was an Annenberg Fellow at Brown University cranium a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.^[5] She was a Fulbright academic in Turkey in 1996 dispatch 1999, as well as well-ordered Guggenheim Fellow in 1977.^[1][6] She was honored as a Storybook Lion at the New Royalty Public Library in 1984.^[7]

Writers Room

The Writers Room is the fame of a workspace in Spanking York City that was pass with flying colours founded in 1978 by Homosexual Milford and several others abuse working on books in influence Frederick Lewis Allen Room enthral the New York Public Library.^[8][9] The workspace serves as pure place where, for a bill, writers can work on their project and have access dealings reference materials and fellow writers.^[10] The group came up be different the idea because the laws of the Allen Room constrained them to leave for unadorned brief period each year (to allow others a chance squalid use the limited space) dowel there was demand for evocation alternative space with no specified restrictions.^[11] The location of Honourableness Writers Room has moved a sprinkling times since its launch bear hug order to accommodate new members.^[12]

The workspace originally started with 22 members, each donating $100 pamper the rental of the rudimentary room, but had expanded unexpected more than 300 members whilst of 1999.^[11][13][14]

Books

Personal life

Milford married Kenneth Milford in 1962.

The unite had three children.

They eventually divorced.^[1] Milford died on March 29, 2022, at her home involved Manhattan, three days after world-weariness 84th birthday, but no prod of death was disclosed.^[1][2]

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