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Coming to the Stacks: February 2017

Published on : 19 February, 201819 February, 2018 Published by : LitStackEditor

SCI-FI/FANTASY Author of THE WOLF OF THE NORTH trilogy and THE SOCIETY OF THE SWORD trilogy Duncan Hamilton’s DRAGONSLAYER, the first in a new trilogy about an ancient dragon that awakens and lays waste to the countryside, a mage fleeing being burned at the stake by her neighbors, and an ex-chevalier who needs to find [….]

On this day, February 22, in 1892, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine. When she was still in her teens, she wrote the poem “Renascence” for a poetry contest which immediately catapulted her into fame, mainly because it took 4th place when it was obviously the superior work. An early feminist, her works often used images of female sexuality, and she was not reticent with displaying her own bisexuality. Her work, The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, and in 1943 she was awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry. She died of a heart attack in 1950; she was only 58 years old.

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