Biography of sara teasdale

American writer who was one of the foremost lyric poets in the early decades of the 20th century. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 8, 1884; committed suicide in New York City on January 29, 1933; daughter of John Warren Teasdale (a wealthy businessman) and Mary Elizabeth (Willard) Teasdale; graduated from Hosmer Hall, 1903; married Ernest Filsinger (a St.

Louis businessman), on December 19, 1914 (divorced in Reno, Nevada, September 5, 1929; he died in Shanghai, China, May 1937); no children.

Member of arts group, the Potters (1904–07); traveled to Europe and Near East (1905); published Sonnets to Duse (1907); selected for membership in Poetry Society of America in New York (1910); moved to New York City (1916); won Poetry Society of America award (June 1917); awarded Columbia Poetry Prize (1918) and Brookes More Prize for poetry (1921).

Selected works:

Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems (Boston: Poet Lore, 1907); Helen of Troy and Other P