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Willa Sibert Cather (/ ˈ k æ ð ər /; [1] born Wilella Sibert Cather; [2] December 7, 1873 [A] – 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.
One of Ours is a 1922 novel by Willa Cather that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native in the first decades of the 20th century.
Cather's influences for the poems were, among others, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Richard Wagner, Virgil's Georgics, William Shakespeare, François Villon, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, John Keats's Endymion and Hyperion, Alphonse Daudet's Kings in Exile, Heinrich Heine's The Gods in Exile and The North Sea, and Edward ...
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Shadows on the Rock is a novel by the American writer Willa Cather, published in 1931. [1] The novel covers one year of the lives of Cecile Auclair and her father Euclide, French colonists in Quebec. Like many of Cather's books, the story is driven by detailed portraits of the characters, rather than a narrative plot. [2]
O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It was her second published novel. It was her second published novel. The title is a reference to a poem by Walt Whitman entitled "Pioneers!
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Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by American author Willa Cather. First published in 1912, it was re-released with an author's preface in 1922. It also ran as a serial in McClure's, giving Cather some free time from her work for that magazine. [1]