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Willa Cather

WILLA CATHER was born in Virginia in 1873, and was about nine years old when her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, she worked for a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper, then moved to Pittsburgh and finally to New York City. There she joined McClure’s magazine. After meeting the author Sarah Orne Jewett, she decided to quit journalism and devote herself full time to fiction. Her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge, appeared in 1912, but her place in American literature was established with her first Nebraska novel, O Pioneers!, published in 1913, followed by her most famous pioneer novel, My Antonia, in 1918. In 1922 she won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours. Her other novels include Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadows on the Rock, The Song of the LarkThe Professor’ s HouseMy Mortal Enemy, and Lucy Gayheart. She died in 1947.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
My Antonia
Coming, Aphrodite
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
My Antonia
Willa Cather In Europe
Willa Cather On Writing
Not Under Forty
April Twilights and Other Poems
My Antonia
O Pioneers!
Alexander's Bridge
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
The Song Of The Lark
My Antonia
Vintage Cather
O Pioneers!
My Ántonia
The Song of the Lark
The Song of the Lark
Coming, Aphrodite!
My Antonia
Lucy Gayheart
Shadows on the Rock
My Ántonia
My Ántonia
O Pioneers!
Collected Stories of Willa Cather
O Pioneers!
Death Comes for the Archbishop
One of Ours
The Professor's House
My Mortal Enemy
A Lost Lady
Death Comes for the Archbishop

Books

Death Comes for the Archbishop
My Antonia
Coming, Aphrodite
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
My Antonia
Willa Cather In Europe
Willa Cather On Writing
Not Under Forty
April Twilights and Other Poems
My Antonia
O Pioneers!
Alexander's Bridge
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
The Song Of The Lark
My Antonia
Vintage Cather
O Pioneers!
My Ántonia
The Song of the Lark
The Song of the Lark
Coming, Aphrodite!
My Antonia
Lucy Gayheart
Shadows on the Rock
My Ántonia
My Ántonia
O Pioneers!
Collected Stories of Willa Cather
O Pioneers!
Death Comes for the Archbishop
One of Ours
The Professor's House
My Mortal Enemy
A Lost Lady
Death Comes for the Archbishop