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willa cather
Thea Kronborg battles adversity to become an opera star in "Song Of The Lark" by this "O Pioneers!" author
Trivia about willa cather
The town of Red Cloud, Nebraska has a historical center devoted to this author
In 1884 she moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska & later fictionalized it as the town of Hanover in "O Pioneers!"
The high spirited Alexandra Bergson is the heroine of this author's "O Pioneers!"
She dedicated "O Pioneers!" to her fellow novelist Sarah Orne Jewett
She wrote her Nebraska-set "O Pioneers!" while living in Greenwich Village
She set her 1931 novel "Shadows on the Rock" in Quebec, not in Nebraska
Her childhood in Red Cloud, Nebraska influenced her "O Pioneers!" & other works
Pioneering Nebraska novelist seen here in 1915
In "O Pioneers!", she wrote, "The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman"
James Fenimore Cooper wrote "The Pioneers" & she wrote "O Pioneers!"
This author of "My Antonia" set her last novel, "Sapphira And The Slave Girl", in Virginia, her home state
The heroine of her 1923 novel "A Lost Lady" is based on Mrs. Silas Garber, wife of a governor of Nebraska
"Reader's Encyclopedia" says her favorite of her own novels was "The Song of the Lark", not "O' Pioneers"
The Red Cloud, Nebraska home seen here was the model for Antonia's home in a novel by this author:
Kit Carson turns up in her 1927 novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop"
She set "Death Comes For The Archbishop" in New Mexico, not on the Nebraska prairie
In the 1880s her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska, where her father opened an insurance & real estate office
In 1923 she won a Pulitzer for her novel "One of Ours", set where else but in Nebraska
The town of Hanover, Nebraska is "trying not to be blown away" by a storm in Part I of her novel "O Pioneers!"
Don't wait for the mini-series of “My Antonia”; this author's will forbids screen adaptations
It's said that the first literary use of "stuffed shirt" for a pompous bore was in her 1913 novel "O Pioneers!"
Tragedy strikes a high school student staying at the Waldorf in this Nebraska woman's 1905 story "Paul's Case"
Her 1922 novel "One of Ours" tells the tale of a Nebraska farm boy who dies in WWI (Nebraska is your big clue)
A plaque on 5 Bank Street in New York City notes that she wrote "My Antonia" there
She resigned as editor of McClure's in 1912 to become a novelist, mainly with tales of Nebraska
She wrote for the Nebraska State Journal & the Pittsburgh Leader before penning "My Antonia"