Edna St. Vincent Millay and her Camden High School classmate and best friend, Corinne Sawyer, around 1909, the year of their graduation.

Millay was "discovered" in 1912 reading her poetry at Whitehall Inn in Camden, which enabled her to go to Vassar College and launch her literary career. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1923 for "The Ballad of the Harp Weaver." She received $1,000 for the award, and said she would use it to return to Maine.

Corinne Sawyer remained in Camden, and became the librarian at the Camden Public Library. She was responsible for building the extensive Millay collection at the library.