This year The Millay Society celebrates the centennial of Millay and her husband Eugen Boissevain’s purchase of Steepletop, Millay’s home for the second half of her life. As part of the celebration of this milestone, Millay Society literary officer and secretary Krystyna Poray Goddu will present a look at the life and work of the legendary poet.
Millay (1892-1950) and Boissevain moved to Austerlitz in the summer of 1925, and many of the poet’s most famous works were written in a small wooden writing cabin on a hillside above the main house. Millay died at Steepletop in October 1950, having …