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Willa Cather (b. December 7, 1873 in Virginia; d. April 24, 1947 in New York) is among the most eminent female American authors. She is known for her depictions of US prairie life in novels like O Pioneers , My Antonia , and Death Comes for the Archbishop.

Cather was born in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley but her family relocated to Nebraska in 1883 and she spent the rest of her childhood in Red Cloud, Nebraska. She insisted on attending college, so her family borrowed money so she could enroll at the University of Nebraska-LincolnUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln is a state-supported institution of higher learning located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the largest campus in the University of Nebraska system. The university was founded in 1869 under provisions of the federal Morrill Act.. While there she became a regular contributor to the Nebraska State Journal .

After failing to obtain a position at UNL, she moved to PennsylvaniaPennsylvania (the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is one of four states of the United States of America that is called a commonwealth. It has given its name to the Pennsylvanian time period in geology. Pennsylvania is called the Keystone State. Although Swed, where she taught high school and worked for Home Monthly and McClure's Magazine. The latter publication serialized her first novel, Alexander's BridgeAlexander's Bridge is the first novel by American author Willa Cather. First published in 1912, BooksEnthsiast.com, it was re-released with an author's preface in 1922. Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going, which was heavily influenced by Henry JamesHenry James ( April 15 1843 February 28, 1916), younger brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James, was a British-American author of the late 19th and early 20th century, best known for novels and novellas based upon themes of morality.. She met author Sarah Orne JewettSarah Orne Jewett ( 1849- 1909) was an American author whose works were set in her native New England. Her most famous work was the 1896 The Country of Pointed Firs set in Dunnet Landing, Maine. External links Jewett, Sarah Orne Jewett, Sarah Orne., who advised Cather to rely less on the influence of James and more on her native Nebraska.

For her novels she returned to the prarie for inspiration, and these works became popular and critical successes. She won the Pulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a United States literary award given out each April. Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the United States. The prize was in 1923Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 Events January 1 Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larg for One of Ours ( 1922). She was celebrated by critics like H.L. Mencken for writing about ordinary people in plainspoken language. When he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Sinclair Lewis said Cather should have won it instead. However, later critics attacked Cather, a political conservative, for ignoring the plight of those ordinary people and tended to favor more experimental authors.

In 1973, Willa Cather was honored by the United States Postal Service with her image on a