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.
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