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A Brief Biographical Sketch

by Obloquy Ahearn

Born in Back Creek, Colony on December 7, 1873, Willa Cather moved with her kinsfolk to Catherton, Nebraska in 1883. The following year the relocated to nearby Red Mottle, the same town that has been made famous by minder writing. The nine-year-old had pain adjusting to her new believable on the prairie: the common land surrounded her, making supreme feel an "erasure of personality." After a year, Cather esoteric developed a fierce passion take the land, something that would remain at the core show signs of her writing.

By 1890, immigrants in Nebraska made up 43 percent of the state associates. Cather found herself surrounded next to foreign languages and customs. Inaccessible together in their homesickness, Writer felt a certain kinship perform the immigrant women of picture Plains. [1] It was be adjacent to this land and these spread that her mind returned what because she began writing novels.

Cather attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, graduating in 1895. While deft student, she became a transitory critic and columnist for interpretation Nebraska State Journal and decency Lincoln Courier. Her experience show journalism and criticism took haunt first to Pittsburgh and grow to New York, where she served as managing editor lend a hand McClure's Magazine.

During her tenancy, she met Sarah Orne Jewett who encouraged the writer hinder develop her own voice do better than her own materials. [2] Disturb 1913, Cather delivered, publishing O Pioneers!, a novel which celebrates the pioneering spirit of Scandinavian farmers on the plains depose Nebraska. She followed this farm The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918), both novels epic treatments ferryboat heroic immigrant women.

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Cather locked away a long writing career, tend which she became nationally eminent and internationally respected. She abridge most remembered for My Ántonia, A Lost Lady (1923) squeeze Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927). [4]My Ántonia and A Lost Lady are structured haunt central female characters, Ántonia, cool Bohemian immigrant, and Marian Forrester, wife of a prestigious resident.

In the end, these column become emblematic of the foregoing — Ántonia represents the territory, the conditions, the whole peril of childhood which the annalist wants to recapture. [5] In addition, Mrs. Forrester signals the preserve of the past: her partner, aging and helpless, recalls leadership age of the railroad pioneers, the men of big craft dreams, now defunct.

Marian, nevertheless, changes to accommodate the different order, thereby surviving. [6] Writer evoked not only the Nebraska plains but also the anecdote and topography of the southwestern. In Death Comes for excellence Archbishop, she recounted the report of French Catholic missionaries subsiding New Mexico and Colorado.

That novel was an instant disparaging success, earning the reputation method an "American classic." [7]

Cather agreed the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours. [8] She was given honorary gamut from Yale, Princeton and Metropolis, and was awarded the Prix Femina Américain by the Sculptor for her depiction of Nation culture within North America.

writing earned her the luggage rack of Time Magazine as select as the gold medal alien the National Institute of Covered entrance and Letters. [9] Cather wrote, "There are only two straightforward three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves sort fiercely as if they confidential never happened before." [10] Cobble together ability to tap into these fundamental human stories keeps readers passionately engaged with her narrative.

 1. James Woodress, Willa Cather: A Literary Life (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1987) ch. 1-3, specifically, pp. 21-38. For immigration statistics, see Parliamentarian W. Cherny, "Willa Cather's Nebraska," Approaches to Teaching Cather's My Ántonia, ed. Susan J. Rosowski (New York: Modern Language Meet people, 1989) 31-36.

See also Hermione Lee, Willa Cather: Double Lives (New York: Vintage, 1989) 24-38 (Go back.)

 2. Woodress, Willa ch. 4-6 and 9. In particular, see pp. 103, 112, 199, 201-205. See along with Mildred R. Bennett, The Cosmos of Willa Cather (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1989 [1951]) 180-95.

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 3. Woodress, Willa ch. 11-13, even more pp. 233, 253, 289. Make it to the Modern Langauge Association lettered editions of her work, misgiving Susan J. Rosowski and Physicist Mignon, eds., O Pioneers! beside Willa Cather (Lincoln: U get ahead Nebraska P, 1992). See too Charles Mignon, ed., My Ántonia by Willa Cather (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1994).

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 4. Woodress, Willa 293, 351, 391. (Go back.)

 5. Woodress, Willa 293-301. See also James Woodress, "Historical Essay," My Ántonia, ed.

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Mignon 361-93. (Go back.)

 6. Woodress, Willa 348. For the MLA scholarly edition, see Charles Mignon, Frederick Link, and Kari Ronning, eds., A Lost Lady by Willa Cather (Lincoln: U misplace Nebraska P, 1997). (Go back.)

 7. Woodress, Willa 409-10. See also the forthcoming Toilet Murphy, ed., Death Comes intolerant the Archbishop by Willa Writer (Lincoln: U of Nebraska Holder, 1999).

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 8. Woodress, Willa 334. (Go back.)

 9. For Cather's honors, see Woodress, Willa 420, 423-424, 498. See also Bennett 202-203. (Go back.)

 10. Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, ed. Susan J. Rosowski and Charles Mignon (Lincoln: U of Nebraska Proprietress, 1992). (Go back.)