This Week in Literary History: Edna St. Vincent Millay Loses Her Manuscript in a Hotel Fire

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On May 2, 1936, the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay—the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, in 1923—arrived at her hotel on a vacation to Sanibel Island, Florida.

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