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Table of Contents
List of Works by Genre and Title
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
Willa Cather Biography
About and Navigation
List of Works by Genre and Title
Novels :: Collections :: Short Stories :: Non-Fiction
Novels
Alexander's Bridge, 1912
Not Under Forty
One of Ours, 1922
"Prairie Trilogy":
I. O Pioneers!, 1913
II. Song of the Lark, 1915
III. My Antonia, illustrated by W. T. Benda, 1918
Collections
The Troll Garden (short stories), 1905
Youth and the Bright Medusa (short stories), 1920
Short Stories
Ardessa
The Bohemian Girl
The Bookkeeper's Wife
Coming, Aphrodite!
Consequences
"A Death in the Desert"
The Diamond Mine
The Enchanted Bluff
Eric Hermannson's Soul
Flavia and Her Artists
The Garden Lodge
A Gold Slipper
Her Boss
The Joy of Nelly Deane
The Marriage of Phaedra
The Namesake
On the Divide
Paul's Case
Peter
Scandal
The Sculptor's Funeral
The Sentimentality of William Tavener
A Wagner Matinee
Non-fiction
Reviews and Essays
During Cather's studies at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a drama critic to support herself and published her first piece of short fiction, "Peter," in a Boston magazine. After graduation, her love of music and intellectual pursuits inspired her to move to Pittsburgh, where she edited the family magazine Home Monthly, wrote theater criticism for the Pittsburgh Daily Leader, and taught English and Latin in local high schools. Cather's big break came with the publication of her first short story collection, The Troll Garden (1905). The following year she moved to New York City to work for McClure's Magazine as a writer and eventually the magazine's managing editor.
Considered one of the great figures of early-twentieth-century American literature, Willa Cather derived much of her inspiration from the American Midwest, which she considered her home. Never married, she cherished her many friendships, some of which she had maintained since childhood. Her intimate coterie of women writers and artists motivated Cather to produce some of her best work. Sarah Orne Jewett, a successful author from Maine whom Cather had met during her McClure's years, inspired her to devote herself full-time to creating literature and to write about her childhood, which she did in several novels of the prairies. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her novel about World War I, called One of Ours.
She won many other awards, including a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Prix Femina Americaine. On April 24, 1947, two years after publishing her last novel, Willa Cather died in New York City of a cerebral hemorrhage. Among Cather's other accomplishments were honorary doctorate degrees from Columbia, Princeton, and Yale Universities.
Author biography from the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of O, Pioneers!.
Cather was the first woman voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame, in 1961.
She spent forty years of her life with her companion, Edith Lewis, in New York City.
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This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books ...