The 22nd is poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's birthday (1892-1950). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany. It is also the birthday of Sioux-Indian writer and activist Gertrude Bonnin, also known as Zitkala-Sa. (1876-1938). She founded National Council of American Indians in 1926.
The Women's History Project
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