1. Born in: Back Creek, Virginia
On: December 7th, 1873
Died in: New York City, New York
On: April 24th, 1947

2.  Miss Sarah Orne Jewel
Influenced her to write her own way,
adviced her to write things as she sees them.
Wrote:
Tom’s Husband
A Country Doctor
The LandScape Chamber
The Countrt of pointed firs
 Praire life
 The Plains
 Pioneer setlers immigrating:
Swedish, French, mostly woman
 The praire life
 Hired Girls, Servant girls
 Stories from these settlers

4.  Willa’s Hometown has preserved
her childhood home
 They display sign for tourism
 Tours to the home
 Hometown very proud of her

7.  Mother: Mary Virgin Boak
 Father: Charles Cather
 Siblings:Roscoe, Douglas,
Jessica, James, and Elsie

8.  School: University of Lincoln
 Career: Originaly aspired to study Medicine and
Science
 Aprentice Physician
 Change of heart during education:
professor submited her work for publishing in an
article
 Columnist for Nebraska State Journal
 Lincoln Corner, writer
 Managing Editor of McClure’s Magazine

9.  O Pioneers!
 The Song of the Lark
 My Antonia
 One of Ours
 A lost Lady
 Death comes for the Archbishop
 The Enchanted Bluff
 The Shadows of the Rock
 Sapphira and the Slave Girl

10.  The Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in
January 1944
 Pulitzer Award Prize winner for
“One of Ours “
PulitzerAward Prize for “A lost Lady”
 Honorary degrees from Universities, including:
 Princeton, Yale, Berkley
 American Academy Medal for “Death Comes for the Archbishop”
 Prix Femina Americain award for depiction of French culture in
America
 Nebraska Hall of Fame

13.  She has countless fan sites and dedications
 Foundations made in her name
 Large following, fans
 Controversy: Debates on her sexuality have
emerged do to letters and correspondance
about other women and to other women.
 Secret Letters which cannot be quoted due to
her will
 She ensured a protection be in place after
death for the protection of her writing

14.  http://cather.unl.edu/life.shortbio.html
 http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/ess/cath
er-2.htm
 http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-
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 http://www.nndb.com/people/122/000113780/
 http://www.willacather.org/about-willa-
cather/willa-cather?start=4
 http://www.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestop
ics/people/c/willa_cather/index.ctx?query=LITE
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