Willa Cather (1873–1947)
Autor(a) de My Ántonia
About the Author
Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her "Willa." Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a journalist and mostrar mais teacher while beginning her writing career. In 1906, Cather moved to New York to become a leading magazine editor at McClure's Magazine before turning to writing full-time. She continued her education, receiving her doctorate of letters from the University of Nebraska in 1917, and honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy during World War I. She also wrote The Professor's House, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Lucy Gayheart. Some of Cather's novels were made into movies, the most well-known being A Lost Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck. In 1961, Willa Cather was the first woman ever voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma in 1974, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York in 1988. Cather died on April 24, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in her Madison Avenue, New York home, where she had lived for many years. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Willa Cather
Early Novels and Stories: The Troll Garden / O Pioneers! / The Song of the Lark / My Antonia / One of Ours (1987) 522 exemplares
Later Novels: A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy… (1990) 467 exemplares
Delphi Collected Works of Willa Cather (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Ten Book 5) (2019) 14 exemplares
Set of 3 Book of the Month Club (Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Ántonia, O Pioneers!) (1996) 13 exemplares
Willa Cather: Four Great Novels—O Pioneers!, One of Ours, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia (2014) 11 exemplares
The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896 (1967) 10 exemplares
December Night: A Scene from Willa Cather's Novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop" (1933) 6 exemplares
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather "The Annotated Classic Edition" Uniquely Epic American Novel (2020) 6 exemplares
My Ántonia: 100th Anniversary Edition with introduction, context, biography and analysis (2018) 5 exemplares
Classic American Literature: 5 novels and 2 collections by Willa Cather, in a single file, improved 8/16/2010 (2008) 5 exemplares
Death Comes for the Archbishop with Related Readings (The Glencoe Literature Library) (2002) 4 exemplares
Minha Ántonia (Portuguese Edition) 4 exemplares
Willa Cather: Three Novel & Selected Stories (O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, Alexander's Bridge) (1993) 3 exemplares
The Best Years [short story] 3 exemplares
Old Mrs. Harris 3 exemplares
The World and the Parish, Volume 2: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 (1970) 2 exemplares
Before Breakfast [short story] 2 exemplares
Willa Cather's Collected Works: My Ántonia, Song of the Lark, One of Ours, O Pioneers, The Profile, And More! (2013) 2 exemplares
On Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art 2 exemplares
Works of Willa Cather. Alexander's Bridge, O Pioneers!, Song of the Lark, My Antonia, One of Ours, Stories & more… (2009) 2 exemplares
The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends 2 exemplares
The Big Book of Christmas: 140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols 1 exemplar
Poranek wagnerowski : opowiadania 1 exemplar
Selected Short Stories 1 exemplar
Prarie Trilogy, The 1 exemplar
Two Friends 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 069 1 exemplar
The Clemency of the Court 1 exemplar
Farmář Rosický 1 exemplar
[No title] 1 exemplar
Works of Willa Cather (8 Works) 1 exemplar
Miss Jewett 1 exemplar
The Joy of Nelly Deane [short story] 1 exemplar
Willa Cather - The Library of America Set Complete in 3 Volumes (1. Early Novels & Stories; 2. Stories, Poems and Other… (1987) 1 exemplar
Consequences 1 exemplar
The Willa Cather Archive (online) 1 exemplar
Willa Cather Collection (My Ántonia, The Song of the Lark, O Pioneers!, and One of Ours) (2013) 1 exemplar
Katherine Mansfield 1 exemplar
Joseph and His Brothers 1 exemplar
148 Charles Street 1 exemplar
Obscure Destinies / Literary Encounters 1 exemplar
The Novel Démeublé 1 exemplar
Cather Willa (Cather Sibert Wilella) 1 exemplar
O Meu Inimigo Mortal 1 exemplar
Cather, Willa Archive 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (1896) — Preface, algumas edições — 1,038 exemplares
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (1985) — Contribuidor — 832 exemplares
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contribuidor — 440 exemplares
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contribuidor — 257 exemplares
Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction (1990) — Contribuidor — 244 exemplares
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contribuidor — 199 exemplares
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Contribuidor — 194 exemplares
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 (1998) — Contribuidor — 169 exemplares
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 147 exemplares
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 129 exemplares
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 79 exemplares
Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women (1997) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 2: Love, Marriage, and the Family (1966) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures: Riders of the Purple… 33 exemplares
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Three Classics by American Women: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers! (1990) — algumas edições — 26 exemplares
Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (Perennial library ; P 502) (1980) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Best-Loved Short Stories: Flaubert, Chekhov, Kipling, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Poe and Others (2004) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Los Premios Pulitzer de novela (VI) 4 exemplares
Pulitzer Prize Winning Works Collection: One of Ours, His Family, Miss Lulu Bett, Cornhuskers, Anna Christie, Alice… (2013) 4 exemplares
The Best Short Stories of 1929 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1929) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War (2014) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 1 (1953) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
A Modern Galaxy: Short Stories — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
La nueva mujer: Relatos de escritoras estadounidenses del siglo XIX — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Avon Modern Short Story Monthly No. 7 (14 Great stories by 14 Great Authors} — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Song of the Lark [2001 TV movie] — Original book — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Cather, Wilella
- Data de nascimento
- 1873-12-07
- Data de falecimento
- 1947-04-24
- Localização do túmulo
- Old Burying Yard, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, USA
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
- Local de falecimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Locais de residência
- Winchester, Virginia, USA
Willow Shade, Virginia, USA
Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
Red Cloud, Nebraska, USA
Catherton, Nebraska, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (mostrar todos 9)
New York, New York, USA
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada - Educação
- University of Nebraska (1895)
- Ocupações
- novelist
short-story writer
poet
essayist
drama critic
editor (mostrar todos 8)
teacher
reporter - Organizações
- National Institute of Arts and Letters
Pittsburgh Daily Leader
Allegheny High School, Pittsburgh
McClure's Magazine (managing editor)
Bread Loaf School of English - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Gold Medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1944)
Nebraska Hall of Fame (1962)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1943)
Prix Fémina Américain (1933)
New York Writers Hall of Fame (2011)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Wilella "Willa" Cather was born on her maternal grandmother's farm in Back Creek Valley, near Winchester, Virginia. In 1883, when she was nine years old, the family moved to the Nebraska frontier, eventually settling in Red Cloud. She graduated in 1895 from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. A year later, she moved to Pittsburgh to work as a magazine editor and theater critic. From 1901 to 1906, she taught high school English. During this time, she published April Twilights (1903), a book of poems, and The Troll Garden (1905), a collection of short stories. At age 33, she moved to New York City.
Membros
Discussions
December 2023: Willa Cather em Monthly Author Reads (Setembro 11)
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 1983 em George Macy devotees (Fevereiro 13)
September 2021 Group Read - O! Pioneers by Willa Cather em Geeks who love the Classics (Outubro 2021)
May Read: Willa Cather em Virago Modern Classics (Agosto 2017)
Willa Cather reading week December 7th - 14th em Virago Modern Classics (Dezembro 2014)
Willa Cather- American Author Challenge em 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Novembro 2014)
September 2014: Willa Cather em Monthly Author Reads (Novembro 2014)
drneutron's 2014 Reading - Fourth Reel em 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Julho 2014)
labwriter reads Death Comes for the Archbishop em 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Dezembro 2011)
Críticas
With complex and memorable characters against clear prose, it's hard not to love this novel. It goes to show that you don't need to be in the middle of bustling Times Square or thrashing about on a ship over the Atlantic Ocean to have an interesting life. The plains of Nebraska can be just as dramatic.
The portrait of Alexandra Bergson showed a compelling young woman who doesn't fit into any stereotypes of a heroine readers are used to seeing. She's not a spoiled princess growing through hardships nor is she a particularly romantic shepherdess you find in old poetry. She's Alexandra with her own flaws and features, and she defies reader expectations the same way she defies her brothers'. She's the driving force of the story, and its heart despite Cather's attempts to make the novel about the land.
Alexandra isn't the only main character in the book. While Emil Bergson (her youngest brother) and Marie Toveksy (her neighbor) are interesting in of themselves, I feel like the story lost a little of something by focusing so much on them later in the novel. Their stories, which were well-written and certainly affected Alexandra, came at the expense of Alexandra's growth earlier in the novel. Personally, I would've loved to see Alexandra grow into the formidable farmer and businesswoman she becomes after the first part. Instead, all readers see is a confident, older woman. It's as if her accomplishments mean nothing, and Alexandra herself often downplays them, instead insisting that everything she's worked for is only worth it so Emil can get work off the farm. It feels demeaning to our heroine.
In reading Willa Cather's Wikipedia page, I learned she faced criticism later in life for her conservative ideas, her disdain of how other women wrote, and her preference for male protagonists. That comes through in this novel, particularly in the ending where Alexandra seems to throw herself at the feet of men for salvation. It's of note that while Cather thought authors like the Brontes and Austen were too sentimental, her story-telling is very similar to theirs. I was strongly reminded of the ending of Jane Eyre when reading this, only switch out Jane Eyre with a young man and Rochester with Alexandra.
In spite of that, Cather's prose is clear and evocative in its simplicity. Her cast is diverse and rich. I highly recommend this Great American Novel. If you didn't like Tom Sawyer, you'll probably like this.… (mais)
The portrait of Alexandra Bergson showed a compelling young woman who doesn't fit into any stereotypes of a heroine readers are used to seeing. She's not a spoiled princess growing through hardships nor is she a particularly romantic shepherdess you find in old poetry. She's Alexandra with her own flaws and features, and she defies reader expectations the same way she defies her brothers'. She's the driving force of the story, and its heart despite Cather's attempts to make the novel about the land.
Alexandra isn't the only main character in the book. While Emil Bergson (her youngest brother) and Marie Toveksy (her neighbor) are interesting in of themselves, I feel like the story lost a little of something by focusing so much on them later in the novel. Their stories, which were well-written and certainly affected Alexandra, came at the expense of Alexandra's growth earlier in the novel. Personally, I would've loved to see Alexandra grow into the formidable farmer and businesswoman she becomes after the first part. Instead, all readers see is a confident, older woman. It's as if her accomplishments mean nothing, and Alexandra herself often downplays them, instead insisting that everything she's worked for is only worth it so Emil can get work off the farm. It feels demeaning to our heroine.
In reading Willa Cather's Wikipedia page, I learned she faced criticism later in life for her conservative ideas, her disdain of how other women wrote, and her preference for male protagonists. That comes through in this novel, particularly in the ending where Alexandra seems to throw herself at the feet of men for salvation. It's of note that while Cather thought authors like the Brontes and Austen were too sentimental, her story-telling is very similar to theirs. I was strongly reminded of the ending of Jane Eyre when reading this, only switch out Jane Eyre with a young man and Rochester with Alexandra.
In spite of that, Cather's prose is clear and evocative in its simplicity. Her cast is diverse and rich. I highly recommend this Great American Novel. If you didn't like Tom Sawyer, you'll probably like this.… (mais)
Breathtaking and heartbreaking, O Pioneers! has so much more depth and feeling than I anticipated going in. It's easy to see a prototypical Steinbeck here in the way Willa Cather breathes life into her characters, and sees them through the wild paths of joy and sorrow their lives take. Incredible, I can't wait to read more of her work.
It took me way too many years to discover this treasure! I am amazed by the author's liberal feminism in the early 1900s! She is also a master of description, imaginative plot, and intriguing character development. Then, with adding the difficult pioneer setting, Cather created a masterpiece.
The copy of Cather's book that I read had a detailed Foreward by Doris Grumbach, that, while probably very good, was a little too much for this beginner to wade through before beginning Cather's books; it nearly kept me from even starting the book.… (mais)
The copy of Cather's book that I read had a detailed Foreward by Doris Grumbach, that, while probably very good, was a little too much for this beginner to wade through before beginning Cather's books; it nearly kept me from even starting the book.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 145
- Also by
- 105
- Membros
- 39,465
- Popularidade
- #452
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 918
- ISBN
- 1,729
- Línguas
- 19
- Marcado como favorito
- 203
- Acerca
- 5
- Pedras de toque
- 2,226
What a disappointment. Claude Wheeler, the protagonist, is a mopey, discontented bore, though well-intentioned and VERY hardworking. Two thirds of the book were him sweating resentfully on the farm, wishing he was somewhere else, and when he was, he wasn't happy there either. He inexplicably decides to marry a prim local girl, who doesn't really want to marry him, but she wants a house of her own so... On the wedding night it's made clear he won't be sleeping with her, understandably increasing his misery. He decides the war is the answer to his problems, so he enlists. He quickly makes lieutenant, befriends a bunch of cheerful, pleasant, noble guys; many of whom die on the troopship on the way Over There (the flu is just getting started), but no one seems too fazed by it. France turns out to be picturesque, with quaint, charming girls and kindhearted farmers... until there's an attack and everyone dies. The End.
It feels empty and devoid of much serious emotional effect, all rather an "exercise" in a wartime novel. Plenty of Cather's lovely writing describing nature and surroundings, but the people are puppets and characters with little complexity or interest. I kept going, hoping for better, but it never arrived. I guess the Pulitzer folks went with topical that year.… (mais)