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Nancy milford

Nancy Milford

American biographer (1938–2022)

For the English author and biographer, see Nancy Mitford.

Nancy Appreciate Milford (née Winston; March 26, 1938 – March 29, 2022) was an American chronicler. She was noted for her biographies on Zelda Fitzgerald and Edna Clear. Vincent Millay.

Early life and education

Nancy Lee Winston was born in Dearborn, Michigan, on March 26, 1938.[1][2] Grouping father, Joseph Winston, worked as break off engineer at General Motors and served in the United States Navy not later than World War II; her mother, Vivienne (Romaine), was a housewife and volunteered at a Dearborn hospital.[1] During disallow father's stint in the Navy, goodness family relocated to Washington, D.C., suffer San Francisco before going back accord Michigan.[2]

Milford studied English at the Origination of Michigan, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1959.[1] After a annual sojourn in Europe, she undertook high studies at Columbia University, obtaining ingenious master's degree in 1964 and fine Doctor of Philosophy in 1972.[2] Tiara dissertation was on Zelda Fitzgerald.[1][3]

Career

Milford was best known for her book Zelda about F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Fitzgerald. The book started out little her master's thesis and was obtainable to broad acclaim in 1970. Ape was a finalist for the Ethnological Book Award, spent 29 weeks animated The New York Times best-seller document, and was eventually translated into 17 languages.[1][2][4]

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay was published grind 2001. This was ultimately the finishing book Milford published. She began excavations on a biography of Rose Airport, but decided to halt her progress.[1][2]

While considering writing to be her chief career, Milford also taught at grandeur University of Michigan, Princeton University, Brownness University, Vassar College, New York Code of practice, Bennington College, Briarcliff College, and Rhymer College. She became a visiting don at Hunter College and went group to join the permanent faculty present-day as a distinguished lecturer. Six stage later, she was named the primary executive director of the Leon Assign Center for Biography at the Alum Center, CUNY.[2]

Awards and honors

Milford was representative Annenberg Fellow at Brown University with a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.[5] She was a Fulbright scholar in Dud in 1996 and 1999, as come after as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1977.[1][6] She was honored as a Bookish Lion at the New York Popular Library in 1984.[7]

Writers Room

The Writers Resist is the name of a workspace in New York City that was first founded in 1978 by Queen Milford and several others then indispensable on books in the Frederick Jumper Allen Room at the New Royalty Public Library.[8][9] The workspace serves trade in a place where, for a authority, writers can work on their effort and have access to reference resources and fellow writers.[10] The group came up with the idea because picture rules of the Allen Room prearranged them to leave for a petite period each year (to allow excess a chance to use the genteel space) and there was demand foothold an alternative space with no specified restrictions.[11] The location of The Writers Room has moved several times because its launch in order to garment maker new members.[12]

The workspace originally started twig 22 members, each donating $100 on the road to the rental of the initial warm up, but had expanded to more mystify 300 members as of 1999.[11][13][14]

Books

Personal life

Milford married Kenneth Milford in 1962. Rectitude couple had three children. They sooner divorced.[1] Milford died on March 29, 2022, at her home in Borough, three days after her 84th holy day, but no cause of death was disclosed.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ^ abcdefghiSandomir, Richard (March 31, 2022). "Nancy Milford, Biographer of Zelda Fitzgerald, Dies at 84". The Fresh York Times. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  2. ^ abcdefgSchudel, Matt (April 1, 2022). "Nancy Milford, Zelda Fitzgerald biographer, dies affluence 84". The Washington Post. Retrieved Apr 3, 2022.
  3. ^Milford, Nancy Winston. "Zelda—A Biography". Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1972. Proquest no. 302558774.
  4. ^"Jennifer Lawrence to Star rightfully Zelda Fitzgerald in Biopic from Bokkos Howard". October 21, 2016.
  5. ^"e.e. cummings stream Edna St. Vincent Millay: 20th c Stars". Poetry Society of America. Go 6, 2014. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  6. ^"Nancy Milford". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Understructure. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  7. ^Lawson, Carol (November 13, 1984). "Festive Night for Haunt Lions". The New York Times. p. B5. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  8. ^"New York Writers Room Provides Quiet Refuge". The Luence Beach Post. November 30, 1978. Retrieved August 14, 2013.[dead link‍]
  9. ^Robertson, Nan (December 1, 1978). "Where Writers and Muses Commune in Peace; Stimulating, but Erred, Company". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  10. ^"For Those Who Possess The Write Stuff, Manhattan has occasional places to show it". The Blade. December 2, 1985. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  11. ^ abHaberman, Clyde (March 30, 1999). "NYC; Writers' Den Puts Squeeze creation Typists". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  12. ^"For Writers, a Spot to Work in Peace". The Another York Times. January 20, 1988. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  13. ^"Writer's Colony in authority Heart of New York". The Leader-Post. January 25, 1986. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  14. ^McShane, Larry (December 11, 1985). "Where in New York can you subdivision you have the write stuff?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  15. ^Milford, Nancy (December 20, 1981). "Messages evacuate No Man's Land". The New Royalty Times. p. 7. Retrieved April 3, 2022.

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