Elizabeth Dodd's The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet: H. D., Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, and Louise Gluck (1992) explores the lives of four twentieth-century female poets. Dodd shows how each woman navigated her male-dominated environment to find her unique voice as a poet.

Few novels capture the uninhibited consumption of the 1920s as well as F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby (1925). In a love story about Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, Fitzgerald depicts the high-spirited parties and materialism of the decade.

Edited by Millay biographer Nancy Milford and published by Modern Library, The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Modern Library) (2001) includes the poet's early works, her most renowned poems, and many of her sonnets. The introduction provides a biographical context for the reader.

Edited by June Skinner Sawyers, The Greenwich Village Reader: Fiction, Poetry, and Reminiscences, 1872-...