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Margaret Widdemer (September 30, 1884 – July 14, 1978) was a U.S. 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''.〔("Poetry" ). The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-24.〕 ==Biography== Margaret Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where her father, Howard T. Widdemer, was a minister of the First Congregational Church. She graduated from the Drexel Institute Library School in 1909.〔Untermeyer, Louis (1921). (''Modern American Poetry'' ), p. 350. Harcourt, Brace and Company. Retrieved 18 May 2014.〕 She first came to public attention with her poem ''The Factories'', 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. His papers are held at the University of Texas at Austin. Widdemer's memoir ''Golden Years I Had'' recounts her friendships with eminent authors such as Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. The scholar Joan Shelley Rubin has surmised that Widdemer coined the term "middlebrow" in her essay "Message and Middlebrow," published in 1933 in ''The Saturday Review of Literature''.〔Madigan, Mark J. "Willa Cather and the Book-of-the-Month Club." In Reynolds, Guy, ed. (2007). (''Cather Studies: Willa Cather As Cultural Icon'' ), p. 81. University of Nebraska Press. Retrieved 18 May 2014.〕 However, the term had previously been used by the British magazine Punch in 1925.〔"Middlebrow". Oxford English Dictionary. 23 February 2008. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Widdemer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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