Edna St. Vincent Millay (American, 1892 - 1950) was a playwright and poet who received a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, becoming the third woman to achieve this honor. She moved from New York to Paris in 1921, hoping to develop a more accepting and discerning audience for her work, which drew from her bohemian experiences as a bisexual writer in New York’s Greenwich Village. Man Ray photographed Millay in the early 1920s, before she married Dutch coffee importer Eugen Jan Boissevain and moved back to upstate New York, where she would live and write for the rest of her life.