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Willa Cather was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer, best known for her novels of Nebraskan frontier life. Born in 1873 near Winchester, Virginia, she moved with her family to Catherton, Nebraska in 1883, and the landscape went on to have a formative effect on her. Before becoming a full-time writer, Cather worked as a journalist, a magazine editor and a teacher. Her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, was published in 1912, followed by titles including O Pioneers! (1913); The Song of the Lark (1915); My ntonia (1918); One of Ours (1922), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize; Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). She died in New York in 1947.
A clear-eyed salute to the resilience of the human spirit * Guardian * My Antonia remains a revelation * The Paris Review * The knowledge of long hardship gives weight to the novel's exquisitely realized moments of fulfilment... Cather looks with a wise, clear eye on those quiet moments -- Alexandra Harris * Harper's Bazaar *
