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Fact File
| Name:
Willa Cather
Also Known As:
Wilella Sibert Cather (full name)
Date of Birth:
December 7, 1873
Place of Birth:
Winchester, Virginia
Date of Death:
April 27, 1947
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New York, New York
Education:
B.A., University of Nebraska, 1895
Awards:
Pulitzer Prize for fiction awarded for One of Ours, 1923; Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1944
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A Writer's Favorite
| In our interview with British mystery maven Penelope Lively, she names Cather's My Ántonia as one of her all-time favorite books. "I love it for the sharpness of its imagery, which conjures up frontier life in the way that only words could do," Lively reflects. "Cather never wanted a film to be made of it, and quite right, too -- her image of the ploughshare silhouetted against the vast setting sun stands best in the mind, just like that."
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Cather's Classic
| Cather in Her Own Words
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| | My Antonia (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
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Willa Cather, Gordon Tapper (Introduction)
“No romantic novel ever written in America... is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia," H. L. Mencken once said. Widely recognized as one of Willa Cather’s greatest novels, My Ántonia is the poignant tale of a pioneer woman’s simple yet heroic life.
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| | Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters
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L. Brent Bohike, Willa Silbert Cather, L. Brent Bohlke (Editor)
"Cather's public utterances were expressed with the same honesty and clarity that distinguish her immaculate novels and short stories," Booklist observed of this fascinating collection of Cather's speeches, interviews, and letters. "As happens when experiencing Cather's fiction, the reader of these words warms to her gentle passion and quiet eloquence."
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