Willa Cather

Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer. After her family moved from Virginia to Nebraska, she studied at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and worked first as a journalist and English teacher, later as a magazine editor. She became known especially for novels about life in the prairie and Plains states, including *O Pioneers!*, *My Ántonia*, and *Death Comes for the Archbishop*. In 1923, she received the Pulitzer Prize for *One of Ours*, a novel set during the First World War. Cather also wrote numerous short stories.