Willa Cather
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, Poetry, Poets, Media, Journalism, Journalists
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, Women’s History
Article abstract: At a time when such careers were nearly unheard of for women, Cather became a celebrated theater and music critic, crusading magazine editor, and accomplished novelist-poet in the tradition of American naturalism.
Early Life
The life of Willela Sibert Cather is filled with small surprises. Though she became identified in the minds of her readers with Nebraska, the setting for much of her fiction, she actually lived the first nine years of her life at Willowshade, her family’s home in rural western Virginia. Then too, although many...
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