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2. 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 ...

3. Annie Sadilek Pavelka - Wikipedia

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   Cather said: "She [Annie] was one of the truest artists I ever knew in the keenness and sensitiveness of her enjoyment, in her love of people and in her willingness to take pains" (Bohlke 44). [ 1 ] When Annie was a young woman, she - like Antonia in the novel - returned to Webster County, pregnant, after being left by a railroad employee ...

4. Willa Cather - Wikipedia

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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.

5. 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 ...

6. The most famous author from every state - AOL

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   Though Willa Cather is generally known for writing about frontier life, she was born in Virginia. ... Known for her books like "O Pioneers!," "My Antonia," and the Pulitzer Prize winner "One of ...

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

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   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 ...

8. Pavelka Farmstead - Wikipedia

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   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 grew up in ...

9. My Antonia (film) - Wikipedia

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   My Antonia is a 1995 American drama television film directed by Joseph Sargent and written and produced by Victoria Riskin, based on the 1918 novel of the same name by Willa Cather. It stars Jason Robards , Eva Marie Saint , and Neil Patrick Harris .