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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.
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...
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.
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 individuals within local cultures.
Willa Cather A Brief Biographical Sketch by Amy Ahearn. Born in Back Creek, Virginia on December 7, 1873, Willa Cather moved with her family to Catherton, Nebraska in 1883. The following year the family relocated to nearby Red Cloud, the same town that has been made famous by her writing.
Willa Cather endures, not only as a “favorite daughter,” but as an author who elevated her formative Nebraska experiences into an international literary legacy. Cather died in 1947, and was laid to rest in the Old Burying Ground in Jaffrey Center, New Hampshire.
Apr 13, 2023 · Willa Cather - Library of America. 1873–1947. Willa Cather, 1927. (Edward Steichen/Condé Nast via Getty Images) View all. Major works: O Pioneers! • The Song of the Lark • My Antonia • One of Ours • Death Comes for the Archbishop.
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