Willa Cather (1873–1947)
Auteur van My Ántonia
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Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her "Willa." Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a journalist and toon meer teacher while beginning her writing career. In 1906, Cather moved to New York to become a leading magazine editor at McClure's Magazine before turning to writing full-time. She continued her education, receiving her doctorate of letters from the University of Nebraska in 1917, and honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy during World War I. She also wrote The Professor's House, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Lucy Gayheart. Some of Cather's novels were made into movies, the most well-known being A Lost Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck. In 1961, Willa Cather was the first woman ever voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma in 1974, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York in 1988. Cather died on April 24, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in her Madison Avenue, New York home, where she had lived for many years. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Early Novels and Stories: The Troll Garden / O Pioneers! / The Song of the Lark / My Antonia / One of Ours (1987) 532 exemplaren
Later Novels: A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy… (1990) 477 exemplaren
Delphi Collected Works of Willa Cather (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Ten Book 5) (2019) 14 exemplaren
Set of 3 Book of the Month Club (Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Ántonia, O Pioneers!) (1996) 13 exemplaren
Willa Cather: Four Great Novels—O Pioneers!, One of Ours, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia (2014) 11 exemplaren
The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896 (1967) 9 exemplaren
December night: A scene from Willa Cather's novel "Death comes for the archbishop" (1933) 7 exemplaren
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather "The Annotated Classic Edition" Uniquely Epic American Novel (2020) 6 exemplaren
Classic American Literature: 5 novels and 2 collections by Willa Cather, in a single file, improved 8/16/2010 (2008) 5 exemplaren
My Ántonia: 100th Anniversary Edition with introduction, context, biography and analysis (2018) 5 exemplaren
Death Comes for the Archbishop with Related Readings (The Glencoe Literature Library) (2002) 4 exemplaren
The Best Years [short story] 3 exemplaren
Willa Cather: Three Novel & Selected Stories (O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, Alexander's Bridge) (1993) 3 exemplaren
Old Mrs. Harris 3 exemplaren
Before Breakfast [short story] 2 exemplaren
The World and the Parish, Volume 2: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 (1970) 2 exemplaren
Willa Cather's Collected Works: My Ántonia, Song of the Lark, One of Ours, O Pioneers, The Profile, And More! (2013) 2 exemplaren
On Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art 2 exemplaren
The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends 2 exemplaren
Willa Cather Collection (My Ántonia, The Song of the Lark, O Pioneers!, and One of Ours) (2012) 2 exemplaren
Works of Willa Cather. Alexander's Bridge, O Pioneers!, Song of the Lark, My Antonia, One of Ours, Stories & more… (2009) 2 exemplaren
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Prarie Trilogy, The 1 exemplaar
The World and the Parish, Volume 1: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 (1970) 1 exemplaar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 069 1 exemplaar
Poranek wagnerowski : opowiadania 1 exemplaar
Willa Cather: The Complete Novels (My Ántonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, O Pioneers!, One of Ours...) 1 exemplaar
Two Friends 1 exemplaar
The Essential Willa Cather: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, and One of Ours with an Introduction… (2017) 1 exemplaar
The Big Book of Christmas: 140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols 1 exemplaar
The Troll Garden And Other Stories (Mint Editions (Short Story Collections and Anthologies)) (2020) 1 exemplaar
Consequences 1 exemplaar
Works of Willa Cather (8 Works) 1 exemplaar
Katherine Mansfield 1 exemplaar
The Clemency of the Court 1 exemplaar
Selected Short Stories 1 exemplaar
Obscure Destinies / Literary Encounters 1 exemplaar
Cather Willa (Cather Sibert Wilella) 1 exemplaar
The Novel Démeublé 1 exemplaar
148 Charles Street 1 exemplaar
Miss Jewett 1 exemplaar
Joseph and His Brothers 1 exemplaar
The Joy of Nelly Deane [short story] 1 exemplaar
Cather, Willa Archive 1 exemplaar
Willa Cather - The Library of America Set Complete in 3 Volumes (1. Early Novels & Stories; 2. Stories, Poems and Other… (1987) 1 exemplaar
The Willa Cather Archive (online) 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Cather, Wilella
- Geboortedatum
- 1873-12-07
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1947-04-24
- Graflocatie
- Old Burying Yard, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, USA
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- New York, New York, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Woonplaatsen
- Winchester, Virginia, USA
Willow Shade, Virginia, USA
Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
Red Cloud, Nebraska, USA
Catherton, Nebraska, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (toon alle 9)
New York, New York, USA
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada - Opleiding
- University of Nebraska (1895)
- Beroepen
- novelist
short-story writer
poet
essayist
drama critic
editor (toon alle 8)
teacher
reporter - Organisaties
- National Institute of Arts and Letters
Pittsburgh Daily Leader
Allegheny High School, Pittsburgh
McClure's Magazine (managing editor)
Bread Loaf School of English - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Gold Medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1944)
Nebraska Hall of Fame (1962)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1943)
Prix Fémina Américain (1933)
New York Writers Hall of Fame (2011) - Korte biografie
- Wilella "Willa" Cather was born on her maternal grandmother's farm in Back Creek Valley, near Winchester, Virginia. In 1883, when she was nine years old, the family moved to the Nebraska frontier, eventually settling in Red Cloud. She graduated in 1895 from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. A year later, she moved to Pittsburgh to work as a magazine editor and theater critic. From 1901 to 1906, she taught high school English. During this time, she published April Twilights (1903), a book of poems, and The Troll Garden (1905), a collection of short stories. At age 33, she moved to New York City.
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