Willa Cather

Willa Cather (1873–1947) was born in Back Creek Valley, Virginia, and moved at age nine to the Nebraska prairie town of Red Cloud, an experience that would shape the landscape of her greatest fiction. She attended the University of Nebraska, worked as a journalist and editor in Pittsburgh and New York—eventually becoming managing editor of McClure's Magazine—before devoting herself full-time to fiction. Her early prairie novels, O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark, established her as a major voice in American literature. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by My Antonia.