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    Willa Sibert Cather (/ ˈ k æ ð ər /; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia.

  2. Jun 11, 2024 · Willa Cather (born December 7, 1873, near Winchester, Virginia, U.S.—died April 24, 1947, New York City, New York) was an American novelist noted for her portrayals of the settlers and frontier life on the American plains.

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  3. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather, 1921. Rinehart-Marsden Studios. Today Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century.

  4. Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. Seen as a regional writer for decades after her passing in 1947, critics have increasingly identified Cather as a canonical American writer, the peer of authors like Hemingway, Faulkner and Wharton.

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  5. James Woodress's biography (Willa Cather: A Literary Life), the primary source for this account, provides a comprehensive synthesis of Cather's life, gleaned from family records, letters, critical reviews, and recollections of friends and family.

  6. Sep 7, 2005 · Willa Cathers MY ANTONIA is about the hardy people who risked their lives and fortunes in a harsh new land; Cather had the great good fortune to have lived among the first generation of...

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  8. The Willa Cather Archive is an ambitious endeavor to create a rich, useful, and widely accessible site for the study of Willa Cather's life and writings.

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