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Willa Cather
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American writer (1873–1947)
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Willa Cather was an American author who lived from 7 December 1873 to 24 April 1947. Her literary output includes 244 works, with notable titles such as *Shadows on the Rock*, *Death Comes for the Archbishop*, and *Professor’s House*. She was recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Cather’s writings have been the subject of various guides and discussions, including a study guide for *My Ántonia*. Her quotes include observations on the nature of dreams and the relationship between generations.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 7 December 1873
- Died
- 24 April 1947
- Works
- 244
Top works
- Shadows on the Rock
- Study Guide for Willa Cather's My Ántonia
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Death comes for the archibishop
- Professor's House
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 184
- Total plays
- 3,551
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Long-term management of moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis with dupilumab and concomitant topical corticosteroids (LIBERTY AD CHRONOS): a 1-year, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial
· 2017 · cited 1,117x
- Preserving renal function in adults with hypertension and diabetes: A consensus approach
· 2000 · cited 1,023x
- Synthetic LXR ligand inhibits the development of atherosclerosis in mice
· 2002 · cited 813x
- Lysosome biology in autophagy
· 2020 · cited 718x
- Obesity, Inflammation, and Cancer
· 2016 · cited 710x
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Quotes
- “No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.”
- “There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that.”
- “It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.”
- “The world there was the flat world of the ancients; to the east, a cornfield that stretched to daybreak; to the west, a corral that reached to the sunset; between, the conquests of peace, dearer-bought than those of war.”
- “The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.”
- “The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Willa Sibert Cather (/ˈkæðər/; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – 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.
Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old. The family later settled as Homesteaders in the town of Red Cloud. Shortly after graduating from the University of Nebraska, Cather moved to Pittsburgh for 10 years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33, she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. She spent the last 39 years of her life with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, before being diagnosed with breast cancer and dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Cather and Lewis are buried together in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
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