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Margaret Widdemer

Born

in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, The United States

September 30, 1884

Died

July 14, 1978

Genre

Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs

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Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978) was an American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise (1918). She shared the prize with Carl Sandburg, who won for his collection Corn Huskers (1916). Margaret Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey. She graduated from the Drexel Institute Library School in 1909. She came to public attention with her poem The Factories (1917), which treated the subject of child labor. In 1919 she married Robert 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. Widdemer's ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 575 ratings · 126 reviews · 122 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Rose-Garden Husband 3.88 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 1915 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wishing Ring Man 4.05 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1917	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I've Married Marjorie 3.41 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1920	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year of Delight 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1921 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Old Road to Paradise 3.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1918 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Not? 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1915 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Castle Women 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1968 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You're Only Young Once 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winona of the Camp Fire by Margaret Widdemer, Charles Meister (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1915 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Haunted Hour: An Anthology by Margaret Widdemer (Editor / Contributor), Katharine Tynan (Contributor), Lizette Woodworth Reese (Contributor) 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1920 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Margaret Widdemer

The Rose-Garden Husband (2 books)
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3.91 avg rating — 362 ratings

Upstate New York Trilogy (3 books)
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Margaret Widdemer

4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings

The Winona Series (6 books)
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E. Corinne Pauli (Illustrator)

3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings

Quotes by Margaret Widdemer (?)

“Pain has been and grief enough and bitterness and crying,
Sharp ways and stony ways I think it was she trod;
But all there is to see now is a white bird flying,
Whose blood-stained wings go circling high—circling up to God!”
― Margaret Widdemer

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“But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease,
There’s none like the quiet folk who wait in libraries–
The counselors who never change, the friends who never go,
The old books, the dear books that understand and know!”
― Margaret Widdemer, The Old Road to Paradise

tags: friends, reading

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“It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last day of the week, when the rest of the world is having its relaxing Saturday off and coming to gloat over you as it acquires its Sunday-reading best seller, if you work in a library you begin just at noon to wish devoutly that you'd taken up scrubbing-by-the-day, or hack-driving, or porch-climbing or- anything on earth that gave you a weekly half-holiday!”
― Margaret Widdemer, The Rose-Garden Husband

tags: library, saturday, work

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