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Margaret Widdemer
1884–1978
A Pulitzer-winning poet and novelist, she wrote with a clear, graceful style that made room for both everyday feeling and the social concerns of her time. Her work ranges from lyric poetry to popular fiction and children’s books.
5 Audiobooks
The Rose-Garden Husband
by Margaret Widdemer
The Wishing-Ring Man
by Margaret Widdemer
I've Married Marjorie
by Margaret Widdemer
A Tree with a Bird in it: A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on Being Shown a Pear-tree on Which Sat a Grackle
by Margaret Widdemer
Winona of the Camp Fire
by Margaret Widdemer
About the author
Margaret Widdemer was an American writer born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, in 1884, and she grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey. She studied at the Drexel Institute Library School and went on to build a long career as both a poet and a novelist.
She is best remembered for her poetry, especially The Old Road to Paradise, which shared the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with Carl Sandburg’s Cornhuskers. Reference works and poetry organizations also note that her poems often addressed social issues, including child labor, while keeping to traditional poetic forms.
Alongside poetry, Widdemer wrote a large body of fiction and books for younger readers. She died in 1978, leaving behind a varied body of work that helped keep poetry, popular storytelling, and social feeling in close conversation.