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
“Terrible Women”: Gender, Platonism, and Christianity in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House
How the West Was Whitened: “Racial” Difference on Cather’s Prairie
My Ántonia and the Making of the Great Race
Immovable: Willa Cather’s Logic of Art and Place
A Response to Susan Rosowski’s “Willa Cather’s Ecology of Place”
Concentric Texts in The Professor’s House
The “Wonderfulness” of Thea Kronborg’s Voice
Willa Cather’s Ecology of Place
Getting Back to Cather’s Text: The Shared Dream in O Pioneers!
“The Breath Vibrating Behind It”: Intimacy in the Storytelling of Ántonia Shimerda
Thea Kronborg’s “Song of Myself”: The Artist’s Imaginative Inheritance in The Song of the Lark
The Professor’s House: Cather, Hemingway, and the Chastening of American Prose Style
Jim Burden and the Structure of My Ántonia
Memory, Myth, and The Professor’s House
Prosodic Variations in Willa Cather’s Prairie Poems
The Professor’s House and “Rip Van Winkle”
In Defense of Lillian St. Peter: Men’s Perceptions of Women in The Professor’s House
Cather’s Confounded Conundrums in The Professor’s House
Cather’s Archbishop and Travel Writing
St. Peter and the World All Before Him
Godfrey St. Peter and Eugène Delacroix: A Portrait of the Artist in The Professor’s House?
Willa Cather’s Bodies for Ghosts
Willa Cather and Catholic Themes
The Pattern of Willa Cather’s Novels
The Fool Figure in Willa Cather’s Fiction
Carlyle’s Presence in The Professor’s House
The Dual Nature of Art in The Song of the Lark
“The Thing Not Named ”in The Professor’s House
Willa Cather’s Archbishop: A Western and Classical Perspective
One of Ours: Willa Cather’s Losing Battle
The French-Canadian Connection: Willa Cather as a Canadian Writer
Symbolic Representation in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!
A Lost Lady: The End of the First Cycle
Willa Cather and The Professor’s House: “Letting Go With The Heart”
A Novelist’s Miracle: Structure and Myth In Death Comes For The Archbishop
Willa Cather’s Technique and the Ideology of Populism
The Bohemian Folk Practice in “Neighbour Rosicky”
Nebraska Regionalism in Selected Works of Willa Gather
The Western Humanism of Willa Cather
Two Primitives: Huck Finn and Tom Outland
