Willa Cather

Willa Cather was born in 1873 in Back Creek Valley, Virginia. When she was nine her family moved to Nebraska, where they settled near the prairie town of Red Cloud. There she came to know European immigrant farming families, whose lives later filled her novels. She studied at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, then moved to Pittsburgh, where she worked as a journalist and taught high school English. In 1906 she moved to New York City to take an editorial position at McClure's Magazine, and she published her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, in 1912. Encouraged by the writer Sarah Orne Jewett to write about the places she knew best, she turned to the prairie in O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918), the story of a Bohemian immigrant girl growing up on the Nebraska frontier. One of Ours (1922), about a young Nebraskan in the First World War, won the Pulitzer Prize. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) was also widely popular. She lived in New York for most of her adult life with her companion Edith Lewis. She died in 1947.

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