Willa Cather was born near Winchester, Virginia in 1873. When she was ten years old, her family moved to the prairies of Nebraska, later the setting for a numbe rof her novels. At the age of twenty-one, she was graduated from the University of Nebraska, and spend the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching in Pittsburgh. In 1903, her first book, "April Twilights", a collection of poems, was published and two years later "The Troll Garden", a collection of stories …
Willa Cather was born near Winchester, Virginia in 1873. When she was ten years old, her family moved to the prairies of Nebraska, later the setting for a numbe rof her novels. At the age of twenty-one, she was graduated from the University of Nebraska, and spend the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching in Pittsburgh. In 1903, her first book, "April Twilights", a collection of poems, was published and two years later "The Troll Garden", a collection of stories appeared in print. After the publication of "Alexander's Bridge", in 1912, Cather devoted herself full time to writing, and, over the years, completed eleven more novels (including "O Pioneers!", "My Antonia", "The Professor's House", and Death Comes to the Archbishop"), four collections of short stories, and two volumes of essays. Cather won the Pulitzer Prive for "One of Ours" in 1923. she died in 1947.
