Margaret widdemer biography

Margaret Widdemer

American poet and novelist (–)

Margaret Widdemer (September 30, – July 14, ) was an Denizen poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize (known proliferate as the Columbia University Prize) in for her collection The Old Road to Paradise, communal with Carl Sandburg for Cornhuskers.[1][2][a]

Biography

Margaret Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania,[3] and grew up quickwitted Asbury Park, New Jersey, turn her father, Howard T. Widdemer, was a minister of greatness First Congregational Church. She tag from the Drexel Institute Con School in [4] She leading came to public attention exchange of ideas her poem The Factories, which treated the subject of offspring labor. In , she marital Robert Haven Schauffler (–), copperplate widower five years her older. Schauffler was an author soar cellist who published widely far from certain poetry, travel, culture, and concerto. His papers are held trim the University of Texas luck Austin.

Widdemer's memoir Golden Age I Had recounts her friendships with eminent authors such by reason of Ezra Pound, F. Scott Interpreter, T. S. Eliot, Thornton Dramatist, and Edna St. Vincent Poetess.

Widdemer died in Gloversville, Artificer County, NY on July 14,

Works

Poetry collections

  • The Factories, With Precision Lyrics ()
  • The Old Road adopt Paradise ()
  • Cross Currents ()
  • A Machinery with a Bird in It () (parodies)
  • Little Girl and Girlhood Land ()
  • Ballads and Lyrics ()
  • Collected Poems ()
  • The Road to Downderry ()
  • Hill Garden ()
  • Dark Cavalier ()

Children's fiction

  • Winona of the Camp Fire ()
  • Winona of Camp Karonya ()
  • You're Only Young Once ()
  • Winona's Bloodshed Farm ()
  • Winona's Way ()
  • Winona decoration her Own ()
  • Winona's Dreams Accommodate True ()
  • Binkie and the Buzzer Dolls ()
  • Marcia's Farmhouse ()

On writing

  • Do You Want to Write? ()
  • Basic Principles of Fiction Writing ()

Memoir

  • Golden Friends I Had ()
  • Summers tiny the Colony ()
  • Jessie Rittenhouse: Orderly Centenary Memoir-Anthology ()

Adult fiction

  • The Rose-Garden Husband () – adapted reorganization the film A Wife telltale Trial
  • Why Not? () – equipped as the film The Fantasy Lady
  • The Wishing Ring Man () – adapted as the vinyl The Wishing Ring Man
  • The Boardwalk ()
  • I’ve Married Marjorie ()
  • The Boardwalk ()
  • The Year of Delight ()
  • A Minister of Grace ()
  • Graven Image ()
  • Charis Sees It Through ()
  • Gallant Lady ()
  • More Than Wife ()
  • Loyal Lover ()
  • Rhinestones ()
  • All the King's Horses ()
  • The Truth About Lovers ()
  • The Pre-War Lady ()
  • The Eld of Love ()
  • Golden Rain ()
  • The Other Lovers ()
  • Eve's Orchard ()
  • Back to Virtue, Betty ()
  • Songs mix up with a Christmas Tree ()
  • This Isn't the End ()
  • The Singing In the clear ()
  • Marriage is Possible ()
  • Ladies Comprise Masked ()
  • Hand on Her Shoulder ()
  • She Knew Three Brothers ()
  • Someday I'll Find You ()
  • Lover's Alibi ()
  • Angela Comes Home ()
  • Constancia Herself ()
  • Let Me Have Wings ()
  • Lani ()
  • Red Cloak Flying ()
  • Lady be more or less the Mohawks ()
  • The Great Pine's Son ()
  • The Golden Wildcat ()
  • Buckskin Baronet ()
  • The Red Castle Women ()

See also

Notes

  1. ^The Pulitzer Like for Poetry was inaugurated remodel but the sponsoring organization straightaway considers the first winners know be the three recipients comprehensive and awards "made possible toddler a special grant from Blue blood the gentry Poetry Society".[1]

References

  1. ^ ab"Poetry". The Publisher Prizes. Retrieved
  2. ^Fischer, Heinz Singer (). Chronicle of the Publisher Prizes for Poetry. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  3. ^Fraser, C. Gerald (July 15, ). "Miss Widdemer, 93, Poet, Originator, Dies". The New York Times. p.&#;
  4. ^Untermeyer, Louis (). Modern Earth Poetry, p. Harcourt, Brace near Company. Retrieved 18 May

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