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利奧諾拉·斯貝耶（Leonora Speyer，1872—1956），一個18歲的小提琴傢，隨波士頓交響樂團首次登臺，想不到31年後她會出版她的第一部詩集，又過5年她會因為她的第二本書被授予普利策奬。
年輕的小提琴傢有一個新英格蘭血統的媽媽，她的父親費迪南德·馮·斯托施伯爵，一個成為美國公民、並且在內戰中為聯盟打仗的普魯士貴族。早期她跟紐約愛樂樂團及其他偉大的交響樂團一起演奏。她結了婚，有4個孩子，由於一份好合同旅居國外。埃德加·斯貝耶先生，她的第二任丈夫，1902年與她結婚，曾支持大量現代歐洲音樂到英國，並出版過一部濟慈詩歌的德譯本。然而，他的妻子，直到她44歲都沒有開始寫作。此後，她出版了4本詩集，並因她的文學作品贏得許多奬項。它們組成一份令人欽佩的清單：捉迷藏奬、國傢奬、美國詩歌協會奬、芝加哥詩歌奬，以及普利策奬。她是受到美國詩歌協會主席嘉奬的第一位婦女，她是美國大學優等生榮譽學會會員。她生活在紐約，到處演講音樂和朗誦詩歌。
她的作品有：《卡諾卜壇》（1921），《提琴手的告別》（1926，被授予1927年普利策奬），《裸露的腳跟》（1931），和《減速墻》（1939）。
Life
Leonora Speyer and her husband Sir Edgar Speyer, circa 1921
She was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Count Ferdinand von Stosch of Mantze in Silesia, who fought for the Union, and Julia Schayer, who was a writer.
She studied music in Brussels, Paris, and Leipzig, and played the violin professionally under the batons of Arthur Nikisch and Anton Seidl, among others. She first married Louis Meredith Howland in 1894, but they divorced in Paris in 1902. She then married banker Edgar Speyer (later Sir Edgar), of London, where the couple lived until 1915.
Sir Edgar had German ancestry and following anti-German attacks on him that year, they moved to the United States and took up residence in New York, where Speyer began writing poetry. She won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her book of poetry Fiddler's Farewell.
She had four daughters: Enid Howland with her first husband and Pamela, Leonora, and Vivien Claire Speyer with her second husband.
Awards
Golden Rose Award
Pulitzer Prize
Selected works
"April on the Battlefields", The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919). about.com
"A Note from the Pipes", The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919). about.com
"Suddenly", Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920, Bartleby.com
"Song", Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920, Bartleby.com
Oberammergau, etched, printed and bound by Bernhardt Wall, 1922, 50 copies plus 3 Etcher's Copies
"Measure Me Sky", "The Pet" The Bookman Anthology at the Wayback Machine (archived October 22, 2009)
American Poets, An Anthology Of Contemporary Verse (1923)
Fiddler's Farewell (1926)
Slow Wall; poems, new and selected (1939)
Slow wall; poems, together with Nor without music (1944)
Translation
Hans Trausil (1919). Holy Night; A Yule-Tide Masque. Sunwise Turn.
Notes
Ryan, Laura T. (2007). "Writers born on this day". syracuse.com. Retrieved September 25, 2008.
"Leonora Speyer, Pulitzer Poet". The New York Times. February 11, 1956. p. 16. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
"Art Inventories Catalog". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved November 30, 2008.
"Miss Enid Howland to Wed J.R. Hewitt". The New York Times. August 13, 1919. p. 11. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
Barker, Theo (2004). "Speyer, Sir Edgar, baronet (1862–1932)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36215. Retrieved September 5, 2008. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Poetry X » Poetry Archives » Leonora Speyer » "Biography"". Archived from the original on February 9, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2008.