Sara Teasdale (8 August, 1884 – 29 January, 1933) was an American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Fun Facts about Sara Teasdale:
- Sara Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a very rich family She was very sickly as a child, so much so that she was home schooled for the first nine years of her life.
- In 1907 Ms. Teasdale published her first poem in a local newspaper. That same year her first book, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, a collection of poems was published as well.
- The house in St. Louis had a private suite for Ms. Teasdale. Guests would enter through a separate entrance and only by appointment. This is where she worked, slept and often dined alone.
- The poems she wrote centered on her experiences as a sheltered young lady and changing perspectives as a woman.
- In 1914 Sara Teasdale married Ernst Filsinger, who admired her poetry, and moved with him to New York City two years later to an apartment on the Upper West Side.
- Her third book of poetry, Rivers to the Sea (1915) was so popular it was reprinted several times.
- Her 1917 collection, Love Songs, won the Poetry Society of America Prize, as well as the 1918 Pulitzer Prize (called the Columbia Poetry Prize).
- Her husband was away on business very often, which caused Sara Teasdale to feel lonely. In 1929 she moved away for three months, which gave her the ability to get a divorce. She did not want to inform her husband about the divorce, but her lawyer insisted.
Ernst Filsinger was shocked to say the least. - In 1933 Sara Teasdale committed suicide by overdose of sleeping pills.
- During her lifetime Sara Teasdale wrote seven poetry books, all of them were admired for their style and lyrical mastery.
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