Willa Cather

Also known as Willa Sibert Cather, Wilella Sibert “Willa” Cather, Wilella Sibert Cather

American writer (1873–1947)

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Willa Cather was an American writer who lived from 1873 to 1947 and is remembered for her novels depicting frontier life and pioneer experiences in the American West. Her work is considered important in American literature for capturing the struggles and achievements of settlers and immigrants in early twentieth-century rural America.

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Willa Cather appears in Vinony's Pulitzer Prize collection — one of 1,657 entries. It also appears in American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Vinony's link graph records 1,229 inbound references to Willa Cather, and connects out to University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Maggie L. Walker and Washington, D.C..

It is catalogued under topics including 1873 births, 1947 deaths and 20th-century American biographers.

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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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Type: Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 184
Total plays: 3,551

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5 total works indexed

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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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Image: Willa Cather ca. 1912 wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett (cropped).jpg

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Commons category: Willa Cather
date of birth: 1873-01-01
date of death: 1947-01-01
name in native language: Willa Cather
Commons Creator page: Willa Cather

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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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