Margaret Widdemer (September 30, 1884 – July 14, 1978) was an American poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise, shared with Carl Sandburg for Cornhuskers.[1][2][a]
Biography
editMargaret Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania,[3] and grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where her father, Howard T. Widdemer, was a minister of the First Congregational Church. She graduated from the Drexel Institute Library School in 1909.[4] She first came to public attention with her poem The Factories, which treated the subject of child labor. In 1919, she married Robert Haven Schauffler (1879–1964), a widower five years her senior. Schauffler was an author and cellist who published widely on poetry, travel, culture, and music. His papers are held at the University of Texas at Austin.
Widdemer's memoir Golden Years I Had recounts her friendships with eminent authors such as Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Widdemer died in Gloversville, Fulton County, NY on July 14, 1978.
Works
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Notes
edit- ^ The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was inaugurated in 1922 but the sponsoring organization now considers the first winners to be the three recipients of 1918 and 1919 awards "made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society".[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Poetry". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
- ^ Fischer, Heinz Dietrich (2009). Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. p. 484. ISBN 9783110230079.
- ^ Fraser, C. Gerald (July 15, 1978). "Miss Widdemer, 93, Poet, Author, Dies". The New York Times. p. 20.
- ^ Untermeyer, Louis (1921). Modern American Poetry, p. 350. Harcourt, Brace and Company. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
External links
edit- Works by or about Margaret Widdemer at Wikisource
- A Celebration of Women Writers: The Old Road to Paradise by Margaret Widdemer
- Works by Margaret Widdemer at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Margaret Widdemer at the Internet Archive
- Works by Margaret Widdemer at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Margaret Widdemer at Library of Congress, with 74 library catalog records
