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  2. Willa Cather - Wikipedia

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    Signature. 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 ...

  3. One of Ours - Wikipedia

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    One of Ours at Wikisource. 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. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, he is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood.

  4. O Pioneers! - Wikipedia

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    O Pioneers! 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. The title is a reference to a poem by Walt Whitman entitled "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" from Leaves of Grass (1855).

  5. The most famous author from every state - AOL

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    Known for her books like "O Pioneers!," "My Antonia," and the Pulitzer Prize winner "One of Ours," Cather paved her way as a preeminent author of modernist fiction focusing on the Great Plains of ...

  6. My Ántonia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Celebrating Willa Cather's classic works and enduring ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  8. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Bronze statue of noted American author Willa Cather unveiled ...

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    June 7, 2023 at 12:24 PM. WASHINGTON (AP) — Willa Cather, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author renowned for her portrayal of the lives of pioneer settlers in the U.S. Heartland, was ...