Born: 8 August 1884, United States
Died: 29 January 1933
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Sara Teasdale Filsinger
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Sara Teasdale, an American poet, born in St. Louis. She is the author of: Sonnets to Duse, Helen of Troy, Rivers to the Sea, Love Songs – and has edited One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. Miss Teasdale’s poems are graceful, finished and fervent examples of lyric art, and no poet of today has written more beautiful verse on the joys and sadness of love.
IW note: Teasdale won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1918 for her 1917 collection Love Songs. She died in 1933, a suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills.