Edna St. Vincent Millay was a well-known American poet of the twentieth century. Millay was well-known for her enthralling readings and feminist viewpoints. She wrote Renascence, one of her most famous poems, as well as The Ballad of the Harp Weaver, for which she received a Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Millay was born on St. Mark's Day, April 23rd, 1892, in Buffalo, New York. Her parents were Irish immigrants who had met while studying medicine at Cambridge University in England. They returned home after failing to find work in Ireland, but were soon forced to return because of financial difficulties. During their second stay in America, the family settled in Massachusetts, where Dr. James Millay found employment at a hospital in Boston. However, due to the ongoing poverty situation, the family again had to leave America and move back to Ireland, this time settling in Limerick. Here, Dr. Millay managed to find work as a physician, but Edna's mother died when she was only nine years old. After her mother's death, Edna and her father moved in with his parents so that he could continue his medical career in Dublin. However, due to the severe lack of money, Edna had to help her father earn a living by working as a teacher at a girls' school during the day and writing poems at night. This hard work paid off when Millay published her first collection of poems at the age of twenty.