Sara Teasdale
(1884–1933)

Sara Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest child of John Warren Teasdale and Mary Elizabeth (Willard) Teasdale. Her mother and father had soldier-ancestors in the Revolutionary War. Teasdale was a shy and quiet child who was taught at home for many years and later graduated from private school. Success as a poet came early to her. Her first poems were published when she was still a girl, and her first book appeared before she was 25. Teasdale won the first Columbia Poetry Prize in 1918, a prize that would later be renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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