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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.
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.
April Twilights is a 1903 collection of poems by Willa Cather. It was reedited by Cather in 1923 and 1933. [ 1 ] The poems were first published in many literary reviews, [ 2 ] often under pen names.
Willa Cather Birthplace; Willa Cather Foundation; WILLA Literary Award; Willow Shade This page was last edited on 8 July 2018, at 17:48 (UTC). Text is available under ...
The Professor's House is a novel by American novelist Willa Cather.Published in 1925, the novel was written over several years. Cather first wrote the centerpiece, “Tom Outland's Story,” and then later wrote the two framing chapters “The Family” and “The Professor.” [1]
Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940. [1] It is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. The book balances an atmospheric portrait of antebellum Virginia against an unblinking view of the lives of Sapphira's slaves.
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 ...
The organization was founded in 1955 [2] in Red Cloud, the small town that appears frequently in Willa Cather's novels and stories under a variety of names. [3]Cather, born in Virginia in 1873, moved with her family to rural Webster County, Nebraska, in 1883; in late 1884 the family resettled in the county seat of Red Cloud, where Cather lived until beginning her college studies at the ...