Nancy Milford (1938–2022) was an American literary biographer. Her Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Random House, 2001) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list. Her earlier biography Zelda (Harper & Row, 1970), a study of Zelda Fitzgerald, was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She earned a BA from the University of Michigan and an MA and PhD from Columbia University.
