Sara Teasdale

Sara Trevor Teasdale ( born August 8, 1884 in St. Louis, † January 29, 1933 in New York City ) was an American poet. Her poems, which were characterized by emotional and romantic vein, treated love, nature and death. In 1918 she received the forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Her life she had health problems. Due to their puritanical Victorian upbringing did not marry her true love, the poet Vachel Lindsay, but the businessman Ernst Filsinger, with whom she moved to her wedding in December 1914 to New York. In 1929 they divorced. In 1933, she ended her life by means of an overdose of sleeping pills, 14 months after Vachel Lindsay had taken his own life.

In 1994 she was in the " St. Louis Walk of Fame ". Her grave is located on the " Bellefontaine Cemetery " in St. Louis.