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Willa Sibert Cather (/ ˈ k æ ð ər /; [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.
Feb. 16—During her life, Willa Cather was "obsessed with her privacy," biographer Benjamin Taylor says. It was that obsession — an understandable one for a woman who was almost certainly a ...
The story may be inspired by Cather's 1902 visit of Edward Burne-Jones's studio [2] in Kensington; [3] she used the real name, James, of Burne-Jones's valet. [4]Further, the story has been deemed Jamesian for its narrative technique and its use of the painting as a means to convey meaning.
Benjamin Taylor has a thing for Willa Cather. This year, the 150th anniversary of her birth, he has written a passionate love letter to her in the form of a brief but illuminating biography.
For that reason, it has been deemed 'one of Cather's most autobiographical fictions'. [3] The short story has been linked to Willa Cather's poem, The Namesake, which also broaches the subject of the Civil War, told from the perspective of a sculptor. [4] The frame story has been deemed Jamesian. [5]
Willa Cather, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author renowned for her portrayal of the lives of pioneer settlers in the U.S. Heartland, was honored Wednesday with the unveiling of a bronze ...
O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It was her second published novel. It was her second published novel. The title is a reference to a poem by Walt Whitman entitled "Pioneers!
My Ántonia (/ ˈ æ n t ə n i ə / AN-tə-nee-ə) is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, which is considered one of her best works.. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the ...