Cather, Willa [Sibert]
Cather, Willa [Sibert]( 1873–1947),born in Virginia, as a child moved with her family to Nebraska, where she was reared among the immigrants who are the subjects of many of her novels. After graduation from the University of Nebraska (1895), where her study of Latin may have influenced her graceful Virgilian style, and a period of journalism and high-school teaching, she published a book of poems, April Twilights (1903, enlarged 1923), and a book of short stories, The Troll Garden (1905). She was on the staff of McClure's (1906–12), leaving to devote herself to creative writing after the publication of her first novel, Alexander's Bridge (1912), the story of an engineer torn between love for his wife and the woman he had loved during his youth. With O Pioneers! (1913) she turned to the Nebraska prairies to tell of the heroic and creative qualities of the passing frontier. The Song of the Lark (1915) is again a...
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