Born in St. Louis, Missouri, the U.S., on August 8, 1884, Sara Teasdale was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. In 1918, Love Songs,her poetry collection, won the Columbia Poetry Prize (now, the Pulitzer) and the Poetry Society of America Prize. Though the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was officially inaugurated in 1922, Sara’s win is listed today as the earliest Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Teasdale paved the way for women in poetry and writing, inspiring several of them to write and aim for the top prize – the Pulitzer Prize.
“I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.”
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