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) 528 exemplares
Later Novels: A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy… (1990) 473 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) 9 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
Classic American Literature: 5 novels and 2 collections by Willa Cather, in a single file, improved 8/16/2010 (2008) 5 exemplares
My Ántonia: 100th Anniversary Edition with introduction, context, biography and analysis (2018) 5 exemplares
Minha Ántonia (Portuguese Edition) 4 exemplares
Death Comes for the Archbishop with Related Readings (The Glencoe Literature Library) (2002) 4 exemplares
The Best Years [short story] 3 exemplares
Willa Cather: Three Novel & Selected Stories (O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, Alexander's Bridge) (1993) 3 exemplares
Old Mrs. Harris 3 exemplares
On Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art 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
The World and the Parish, Volume 2: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 (1970) 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
Willa Cather Collection (My Ántonia, The Song of the Lark, O Pioneers!, and One of Ours) (2012) 2 exemplares
The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends 2 exemplares
Alexander’s Bridge 2 exemplares
The World and the Parish, Volume 1: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 (1970) 1 exemplar
Poranek wagnerowski : opowiadania 1 exemplar
The Big Book of Christmas: 140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols 1 exemplar
Prarie Trilogy, The 1 exemplar
Two Friends 1 exemplar
Death comes for the Archbishop r 1 exemplar
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (Annotated): illustrated Original Hardcover Book (1927) 1 exemplar
The Essential Willa Cather: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, and One of Ours with an Introduction… (2017) 1 exemplar
April Twilights (1903); poems 1 exemplar
The Selected Letters of Wlla Cather 1 exemplar
O Pioneers! Riverside Edition 1 exemplar
The Troll Garden And Other Stories (Mint Editions (Short Story Collections and Anthologies)) 1 exemplar
A Lost lady 1 exemplar
Selected Short Stories 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 069 1 exemplar
The Clemency of the Court 1 exemplar
Farmář Rosický 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
The Willa Cather Archive (online) 1 exemplar
The Joy of Nelly Deane [short story] 1 exemplar
Consequences 1 exemplar
Katherine Mansfield 1 exemplar
Joseph and His Brothers 1 exemplar
Miss Jewett 1 exemplar
148 Charles Street 1 exemplar
O Meu Inimigo Mortal 1 exemplar
The Novel Démeublé 1 exemplar
Cather Willa (Cather Sibert Wilella) 1 exemplar
Cather, Willa Archive 1 exemplar
Works of Willa Cather (8 Works) 1 exemplar
[No title] 1 exemplar
Obscure Destinies / Literary Encounters 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (1896) — Preface, algumas edições — 1,052 exemplares
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (1985) — Contribuidor — 843 exemplares
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contribuidor — 446 exemplares
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contribuidor — 262 exemplares
Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction (1990) — Contribuidor — 250 exemplares
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Contribuidor — 193 exemplares
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 (1998) — Contribuidor — 170 exemplares
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 152 exemplares
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 93 exemplares
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 81 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 — 47 exemplares
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 42 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 — 37 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 — 30 exemplares
Three Classics by American Women: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers! (1990) — algumas edições — 25 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 — 22 exemplares
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Contribuidor — 10 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
A Modern Galaxy: Short Stories — Contribuidor — 2 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
Avon Modern Short Story Monthly No. 7 (14 Great stories by 14 Great Authors) (1943) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Song of the Lark [2001 TV movie] — Original book — 1 exemplar
La nueva mujer: Relatos de escritoras estadounidenses del siglo XIX — Contribuidor — 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 (Fevereiro 7)
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 1983 em George Macy devotees (Fevereiro 2023)
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)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 157
- Also by
- 106
- Membros
- 40,282
- Popularidade
- #439
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 935
- ISBN
- 1,754
- Línguas
- 19
- Marcado como favorito
- 203
I cannot remember the names of the other three stories. I did feel bad for the man who was called home from Paris as his group of friends learn about their neighbor. I also felt sad for the school master who retires realizing he did not take risks and lived a staid life knowing his students would be working in the steel mills after graduation.
Willa Cather's writing was phenomenal. Her descriptions put you in the person's shoes. You see exactly what she sees. You feel what the character feels. I was glad I read these.… (mais)