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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 War I.
1948. " The Best Years " is a short story by Willa Cather, first published after her death in the collection The Old Beauty and Others in 1948. [1] It is her final work, [2] and was intended as a gift to her brother, Roscoe Cather, [3] [4] who died as it was being written. [5] Set in Nebraska and the northeastern United States, [6] [7] the ...
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).
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]
April 13, 1979. The Pavelka Farmstead, also known as the Antonia Farmstead, is a house located near Bladen in rural Webster County in south-central Nebraska, on land once owned and occupied by John and Anna Sadilek Pavelka. The farmstead provided a setting, and its occupants characters, for several of the works of author Willa Cather, [1] who ...
Publication date. January 1903. " A Death in the Desert " is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in The Scribner's in January 1903. [1]
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 ...
Publication date. June 1900. " The Affair at Grover Station " is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in Library in June 1900 [1] in two installments, and reprinted in the Lincoln Courier one month later. [2] The story is about a geological student asking an old friend of his about the recent murder of a station agent.