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She was a Fulbright scholar in Turkey in 1996 and 1999, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1977....

It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, spent 29 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, and has since been translated into.

Zelda: A Biography (Finalist – Arts and Letters – 1971) ; Lambda Literary Award · Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent.

She was a Fulbright scholar in Turkey in 1996 and 1999, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1977.

Vincent Millay,” about the poet whose immense popularity in the 1920s and '30s — she won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1923 — faded quickly.

Nacy Milford's Zelda spent twenty-nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book.

Nancy Milford

American biographer (–)

For the English novelist and biographer, see Nancy Mitford.

Nancy Lee Milford (née Winston; March 26, &#;&#; March 29, ) was an American biographer.

She was noted for her biographies on Zelda Fitzgerald and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Early life and education

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

Milford studied English at the University of Michigan, graduating with a bachelor's degree in ^[1] After a one-year sojourn in Europe, she undertook postgraduate studies at Columbia University, obtaining a master's