Alexander's bridge. By: Willa Cather. / NEW EDITION WITH A PREFACE /

Willa Sibert Cather December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947[3]) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Virginia and Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, [4] suppo...