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(1913), Cather told her father and close friends that she was the author of Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy but told others that her role had not been significant. [51] According to L. Brent Bohlke of Bard College, editor of Willa Cather in Person (1990), Cather regarded the Eddy book as poorly written
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.
The novel was reprinted in the Modern Library series in 1931. [5] It was included in Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924–1944. [6] It was also included on Time 's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 [7] and Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century [8] and was chosen by the Western Writers of America to be the 7th ...
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 ...
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.
One of Ours is a 1922 novel by Willa Cather that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native in the first decades of the 20th century.
Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices which are associated with members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally known as the Christian Science church.
On the Divide was Cather's first story to be published in a national magazine. [2] In a 1938 letter to Edward Wagenknetch, Willa Cather admitted that On the Divide was retouched by one of her professors and submitted for publication without her consent. [3] The story bears similarities with O Pioneers!. [4]