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Margaret Widdemer

Personal Info

Known For

Writing

Gender

Female

Birthday

September 30, 1884(93)

Day of Death

July 14, 1978

Place of Birth

Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA

Margaret Widdemer

Writing

Biography

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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia