Widdemer, Margaret

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Birth 1884-09-30
Death 1978-07-14

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Margaret Widdemer, novelist and poet.

From the description of The Dark Cavalier : the collected poems of Margaret Widdemer, 1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702186208

Margaret Widdemer (1889?-1978) was an American author, novelist and poet.

Born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Ms. Widdemer attended Drexel, Bucknell, and Middlebury College. She began writing as a child and by 1916 had received the Trimmed Lamp prize for the best lyric. That same year she shared the American Poetry Society Pulitzer prize with Carl Sandburg. Her career as an author and poet continued, and she began to write essays, reviews, and short stories which were published in American magazines. Widdemer served as vice-president of the Poetry Society of America, and wrote several popular books, including Lady of the Mohawks, The Basic Techniques of Fiction, and Collected Poems . As an author she lectured widely and spoke on NBC radio in a series of talks titled "Do you Want To Write?" She spent most of her life in New York City.

From the guide to the Margaret Widdemer Papers, 1923-1963, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)

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