Margaret Widdemer (September 30, 1884 – July 14, 1978) was an American poet and novelist. She won thePulitzer Prize (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collectionThe Old Road to Paradise, shared withCarl Sandburg forCornhuskers.[1][2][a]
Margaret Widdemer was an American poet and novelist.
Margaret Widdemer was born inDoylestown, Pennsylvania,[3] and grew up inAsbury Park, New Jersey, where her father, Howard T. Widdemer, was a minister of the First Congregational Church. She graduated from theDrexel Institute Library School in 1909.[4] She first came to public attention with her poemThe Factories, which treated the subject ofchild labor. In 1919, she marriedRobert 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 theUniversity of Texas at Austin.
^ThePulitzer 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]
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