Willa Cather

Wilella Sibert Cather

Willa Cather, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist of the American frontier, was born near Winchester in Frederick County, Virginia.

Early life

Born in the Shenandoah Valley in 1873, Cather moved with her family to the Nebraska prairie as a child, an experience that shaped her fiction.

She wrote celebrated novels of pioneer life including "My Ántonia," "O Pioneers!" and "Death Comes for the Archbishop."

She won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "One of Ours."

Cather is regarded as one of the great American novelists of the early twentieth century.

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