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Willa Sibert Cather ( / ˈkæðər /; [1] born Wilella Sibert Cather; [2] December 7, 1873 [A] – 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. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I .
Apr 20, 2024 · Willa Cather. In full: Wilella Sibert Cather. Born: December 7, 1873, near Winchester, Virginia, U.S. Died: April 24, 1947, New York City, New York (aged 73) Awards And Honors: Pulitzer Prize. Notable Works: “A Lost Lady” “Alexander’s Bridge” “Death Comes for the Archbishop” “Lucy Gayheart” “My Ántonia” “Not Under Forty” “O Pioneers!”
Willa Cather Biography. A Great American Writer. "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost citizen," wrote author and Nobel Prize-winner Sinclair Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Photographic portrait of Willa Cather, 1921. Rinehart-Marsden Studios.
Sep 7, 2005 · Willa Cather’s 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...
Longer Biographical Sketch. by Amy Ahearn. Remembered for her depictions of pioneer life in Nebraska, Willa Cather established a reputation for giving breath to the landscape of her fiction. Sensitive to the mannerisms and phrases of the people who inhabited her spaces, she brought American regions to life through her loving portrayals of ...
Willa Cather. 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. Life & Literature.
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. The Complete Letters of Willa Cather. We have surpassed 2,000 letters in our major ongoing project, The Complete Letters of Willa Cather.
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