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- Works Sited
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http://cather.unl.edu/
http://www.gustavus.edu/oncampus/academics/english/cather/
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/3005/Catherintro.html
http://willacather.org/aboutcather.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wcather.htm
http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Cather/ - Willa Sibert Cather
- born December 7, 1873 near Winchester, Virginia
- Where did she attend college?
- Willa Cather attended college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- Which magazine did Cather work for when she moved to New York City?
- She worked on the editorial staff of McClure's Magazine.
- In what year did she win the pulitzer prize for One of Ours?
- 1923
- When did Cather die?
- April 24, 1947
- Quote
- Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- family background
- born on 7 December 1873 in Back Creek Valley (a small farming community close to the Blue Ridge Mountains) in Virginia. She was the eldest child of Charles Cather (deputy Sheriff) and Mary Virginia Boak Cather. The first Cathers originally came from Ireland to Pennsylvania in the 1750's.
- 1884
- Willa meets the girl annie Sadilek in Red Cloud- who later becomes the character Antonia in My Antonia
- 1892
- Publishes her short story "Peter" in a Boston magazine. It later becomes part of My Antonia.
- 1901
- Teaches English and Latin in Pittsburgh high schools.
- 1903
- April Twilights (poems) published.
- 1908
- Meets Sarah Orne Jewett, local colorist from Maine, who later inspired Willa to write about Nebraska.
- 1912
- Alexander’s Bridge published. For the first time Cather visits the Southwest, where she "discovers herself".
- 1913
- Publishes O Pioneers!
- 1915
- Cather visits the Southwest, Wyoming and Nebraska and meets her old friend Annie Sadilek Pavelka again. (My Antonia)
- 1917
- Writes My Antonia in New Hampshire and publishes the book the following year.
- 1923
- A Lost Lady published.
- 1930
- Awarded the Howells medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Death comes for the Archbishop.
- 1947
- Willa Cather dies 24 April and was buried in New Hampshire.
- Cather
- she never married but in later life in New York she found a lifelong companion, Edith Lewis. In
- 1932
- Awarded Prix Femina Americaine for distinguished literary accomplishment
- 1944
- Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters
- books
- Six of her twelve novels are set in the Red Cloud and Webster County of her youth
- APRIL TWILIGHTS
- her only volume of poetry
- Cather's last novel
- SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE (1940)
- 1961
- Cather was the first woman voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame
- 1974
- She was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- 1988
- She was inducted into the National Women`s Hall of Fame at Seneca, New York.