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Girl Poet of the Jazz Age, Greenwich Village Sexpot

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay , by Nancy Milford. Random House, 550 pages, $29.95.

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay , by Daniel Mark Epstein. Henry Holt, 300 pages, $26.

Edna St. Vincent Millay–famed lover of scores of men and Read More

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Cautionary Tale Left Untold: A Balladeer’s Bitter Success

Nat King Cole , by Daniel Mark Epstein. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 438 pages, $27.

Of the great singing stars of the 1940′s and 50′s, only one–Nat King Cole–died young, at age 45. But his story is not the all-too-common one: sordid beginnings, hard-won triumph, then drink- or drug-induced tragedy. Cole’s beginnings were far from Read More