TWA Poet: Vita Sackville-West

1892 - 1962

It’s the birthday of writer Vita Sackville-West, born near Sevenoaks, England (1892). She started writing poetry at an early age, and by the time she was 18 she had written eight novels and several plays, some of them in French or Italian. She was beautiful, more than six feet tall, with dark, heavy-lidded eyes. She fell in love with several women, some…