Her short story collections include The Troll Garden (1905), Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) and Obscure Destinies (1932). Her novels include Alexander's Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Antonia (1918), A Lost Lady (1923), One of Ours (1922), The Professor's House (1925), My Mortal Enemy (1926), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Shadows on the Rock (1931), Lucy Gayheart (1935), and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). She graduated from the University in 1895.Ĭather wrote short stories, essays, and novels that focused on her Nebraska experience, her early years in Virginia, her life in New York and Pittsburgh, and her travels to New Mexico, Canada, and Europe. Willa Cathers 1913 novel, O Pioneers, breathes new life into the American dream narrative using the landscape of the wild Nebraska prairie and a heroic. While attending classes she wrote for the student newspaper, The Hesperian, and became the managing editor in 1893. In 1893 she began working as the theater and drama critic for the Nebraska State Journal and the Lincoln Courier. In 1890, Cather graduated from high school, moved to Lincoln, and enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. In 1896, she moved to Pittsburgh where she wrote and taught high school for ten years. After pioneering west to Nebraska with her family, Cather grew up in a harsh land that would later come to provide many inspirations for her legendary tales. Contexts and Backgrounds includes a rich selection of autobiographical and biographical material, including three interviews with Cather (1913, 1915. In 1883, when Cather was nine, the family relocated to Nebraska. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Willa Cather was born in Back Creek Valley, Virginia, on December 7, 1873.
Willa Cather was born in Back Creek Valley, Virginia, on 7 December 1873, the first child of Charles Cather and Mary Virginia Boak Cather.
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