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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.
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.
About. 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.
Willa Cather's 1923 novel A Lost Lady is now available on the Willa Cather Archive for the first time! Enjoy the full text, complete with page scans of our own first edition. Keep your eye out for more of Cather's novels as they enter the public domain in the years to come.
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. Recent News.
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.
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.
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 white...
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.
