Robert Haven Schauffler

Robert Haven Schauffler (8 April 1879 – 24 November 1964)[1] was an American writer, cellist, athlete, and war hero.

Schauffler published poetry, biographies of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schumann and a series of books celebrating American holidays.

The book he created for Christmas includes several extracts from Dickens, Shakespeare, Leigh Hunt and William Morris.

[6] Schauffler married before the First World War but his wife, Katharine de Normandie Wilson, died in 1916 and he was a widower for several years.

He remarried Margaret Widdemer who jointly won the Pulitzer Award for Poetry that year in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise.

[9] Over the next few decades he lectured whilst creating biographies of Schubert, Robert Schumann, Brahms and Beethoven.