Willa Cather was an American writer born in 1873 in Virginia and died in 1947 in New York. She wrote novels and short stories set in rural America and the Great Plains, drawing from her childhood in Nebraska. Some of her most famous works include O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. Cather received many honors for her writing in her lifetime, including the Pulitzer Prize.

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
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