Widdemer, WIHD uh muhr, Margaret (1884-1978), an American author, received a special Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1919 for her collection Old Road to Paradise (1918). She shared the award with Carl Sandburg. Widdemer's best-known book of poems is The Factory with Other Lyrics (1915). The collection passionately attacks child labor abuses and supports the rights of oppressed workers. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection is more sentimental. Many of Widdemer's poems were published in two volumes of Collected Poems (1928, 1957).