Willa Sibert Cather (/ˈkæðər/; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.
Cather grew up in Virginia and Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. (Information from Wikipedia)
Website: willacather.org
Articles in Western American Literature:
Willa Cather’s Southwestern Grave Robbers, by Carolyn Dekker
Beyond Possession: Animals and Gifts in Willa Cather’s Settler Colonial Fictions, by Alex Calder
The Chinaman’s Crime: Race, Memory, and the Railroad in Willa Cather’s “The Affair at Grover Station,” by Julia H. Lee
Sacred Spaces, Profane “Manufactories”: Willa Cather’s Split Artist in The Professor’s House and My Mortal Enemy, by Kim Vanderlaan
“Terrible Women”: Gender, Platonism, and Christianity in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House, by Anne Baker
How the West Was Whitened: “Racial” Difference on Cather’s Prairie, by Jean C. Griffith
My Ántonia and the Making of the Great Race, by Linda Lizut Helstern
Immovable: Willa Cather’s Logic of Art and Place, by María Carla Sánchez
From a “Stretch of Grey Sea” to the “Extent of Space”: The Gaze Across Vistas in Cather’s The Professor’s House, by Rafeeq O. McGiveron
A Response to Susan Rosowski’s “Willa Cather’s Ecology of Place,” by Reginald Dyck
Concentric Texts in The Professor’s House, by Ann Moseley
The “Wonderfulness” of Thea Kronborg’s Voice, by Sharon Hoover
Willa Cather’s Ecology of Place, by Susan J. Rosowski
Getting Back to Cather’s Text: The Shared Dream in O Pioneers! by Neil Gustafson
“The Breath Vibrating Behind It”: Intimacy in the Storytelling of Ántonia Shimerda, by Evelyn I. Funda
Thea Kronborg’s “Song of Myself”: The Artist’s Imaginative Inheritance in The Song of the Lark, by Demaree Peck
The Professor’s House: Cather, Hemingway, and the Chastening of American Prose Style, by Glen A. Love
Jim Burden and the Structure of My Ántonia, by John L. Selzer
New Letters From Willa Cather, by Mildred R. Bennett
The “Case” of Willa Cather, by John B. Gleason
Memory, Myth, and The Professor’s House, by John N. Swift
Prosodic Variations in Willa Cather’s Prairie Poems, by Mary R. Ryder
The Professor’s House and “Rip Van Winkle,” by Patricia Lee Yongue
In Defense of Lillian St. Peter: Men’s Perceptions of Women in The Professor’s House, by Margaret Doane
Cather’s Confounded Conundrums in The Professor’s House, by James C. Work
The Husband of My Ántonia, by Beth Bohling
Cather’s Archbishop and Travel Writing, by David Stouck
St. Peter and the World All Before Him, by Missy Dehn Kubitschek
Godfrey St. Peter and Eugène Delacroix: A Portrait of the Artist in The Professor’s House? by L. Brent Bohlke
Willa Cather’s Bodies for Ghosts, by Mildred R. Bennett
Willa Cather and Catholic Themes, by John J. Murphy
The Pattern of Willa Cather’s Novels, by Susan J. Rosowski
The Fool Figure in Willa Cather’s Fiction, by Paul Comeau
Carlyle’s Presence in The Professor’s House, by Meredith R. Machen
The Dual Nature of Art in The Song of the Lark, by Ann Moseley
“The Thing Not Named ”in The Professor’s House, by Ann Moseley
Willa Cather’s Archbishop: A Western and Classical Perspective, by John J. Murphy
One of Ours: Willa Cather’s Losing Battle, by Marilyn Arnold
The French-Canadian Connection: Willa Cather as a Canadian Writer, by Benjamin George
Symbolic Representation in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! by Maynard Fox
A Lost Lady: The End of the First Cycle, by Patricia Lee Yongue
Willa Cather and The Professor’s House: “Letting Go With The Heart,” by David Stouck
Willa Cather’s Southwest, by Patrick J. Sullivan
A Novelist’s Miracle: Structure and Myth In Death Comes For The Archbishop, by James M. Dinn
Willa Cather’s Technique and the Ideology of Populism, by Evelyn J. Hinz
The Bohemian Folk Practice in “Neighbour Rosicky,” by Cynthia J. Andes
Nebraska Regionalism in Selected Works of Willa Gather, by Bruce Baker II
My Ántonia: A Dark Dimension, by Sister Peter Damian Charles
The Western Humanism of Willa Cather, by Don D. Walker
Two Primitives: Huck Finn and Tom Outland, by Maynard Fox
