Bert Leston Taylor (“B. L. T.”, Massachusetts, 1866)—humorist, poet, “columnist.”

Editor of “A Line o’ Type or Two” in the Chicago Tribune until his death in 1921. Characteristic books are Motley Measures, 1913, and The So-Called Human Race, 1922. For complete bibliography, cf. Who’s Who in America.

Sara Teasdale (Mrs. Ernst B. Filsinger)—poet.

Born at St. Louis, Missouri, 1884. Educated in private schools, St. Louis. Traveled in Europe and the Near East. Received prizes from the Poetry Society of America, 1916, 1918.

Sara Teasdale’s love lyrics have been admired for their simplicity, feeling, and perfection of form. They need merely to be read to be appreciated.

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