Willa Cather (1873–1947)
Autore di La mia Antonia
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Serie
Opere di Willa Cather
Early Novels and Stories: The Troll Garden / O Pioneers! / The Song of the Lark / My Antonia / One of Ours (1987) 532 copie
Later Novels: A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy… (1990) 477 copie
Set of 3 Book of the Month Club (Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Ántonia, O Pioneers!) (1996) 13 copie
Willa Cather: Four Great Novels—O Pioneers!, One of Ours, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia (2014) 11 copie
The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896 (1967) 9 copie
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather "The Annotated Classic Edition" Uniquely Epic American Novel (2020) 6 copie
My Ántonia: 100th Anniversary Edition with introduction, context, biography and analysis (2018) 5 copie
Classic American Literature: 5 novels and 2 collections by Willa Cather, in a single file, improved 8/16/2010 (2008) 5 copie
Death Comes for the Archbishop with Related Readings (The Glencoe Literature Library) (2002) 4 copie
Old Mrs. Harris 3 copie
The Best Years [short story] 3 copie
Willa Cather: Three Novel & Selected Stories (O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, Alexander's Bridge) (1993) 3 copie
Before Breakfast [short story] 2 copie
Willa Cather's Collected Works: My Ántonia, Song of the Lark, One of Ours, O Pioneers, The Profile, And More! (2013) 2 copie
Works of Willa Cather. Alexander's Bridge, O Pioneers!, Song of the Lark, My Antonia, One of Ours, Stories & more… (2009) 2 copie
Willa Cather Collection (My Ántonia, The Song of the Lark, O Pioneers!, and One of Ours) (2012) 2 copie
[No title] 1 copia
Prarie Trilogy, The 1 copia
Two Friends 1 copia
The Essential Willa Cather: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, and One of Ours with an Introduction… (2017) 1 copia
The Troll Garden And Other Stories (Mint Editions (Short Story Collections and Anthologies)) (2020) 1 copia
Consequences 1 copia
Works of Willa Cather (8 Works) 1 copia
Katherine Mansfield 1 copia
The Clemency of the Court 1 copia
Selected Short Stories 1 copia
The Novel Démeublé 1 copia
148 Charles Street 1 copia
Miss Jewett 1 copia
Joseph and His Brothers 1 copia
Cather, Willa Archive 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (1985) — Collaboratore — 851 copie
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Collaboratore — 447 copie
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Collaboratore — 264 copie
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Collaboratore — 201 copie
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Collaboratore — 194 copie
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 (1998) — Collaboratore — 170 copie
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 132 copie
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Collaboratore — 93 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 83 copie
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 2: Love, Marriage, and the Family (1966) — Collaboratore — 39 copie
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Collaboratore — 37 copie
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
Three Classics by American Women: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers! (1990) — alcune edizioni — 25 copie
Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (Perennial library ; P 502) (1980) — Collaboratore — 25 copie
Best-Loved Short Stories: Flaubert, Chekhov, Kipling, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Poe and Others (2004) — Collaboratore — 23 copie
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Pulitzer Prize Winning Works Collection: One of Ours, His Family, Miss Lulu Bett, Cornhuskers, Anna Christie, Alice… (2013) 4 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1929 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1929) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War (2014) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
A Modern Galaxy: Short Stories — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Song of the Lark [2001 TV movie] — Original book — 1 copia
La nueva mujer: Relatos de escritoras estadounidenses del siglo XIX — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Avon Modern Short Story Monthly No. 7 (14 Great stories by 14 Great Authors) (1943) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Trumps: A Collection of Short Stories — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Cather, Wilella
- Data di nascita
- 1873-12-07
- Data di morte
- 1947-04-24
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Old Burying Yard, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa della morte
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Luogo di residenza
- Winchester, Virginia, USA
Willow Shade, Virginia, USA
Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
Red Cloud, Nebraska, USA
Catherton, Nebraska, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (mostra tutto 9)
New York, New York, USA
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada - Istruzione
- University of Nebraska (1895)
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
poet
essayist
drama critic
editor (mostra tutto 8)
teacher
reporter - Organizzazioni
- National Institute of Arts and Letters
Pittsburgh Daily Leader
Allegheny High School, Pittsburgh
McClure's Magazine (managing editor)
Bread Loaf School of English - Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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) - Breve biografia
- 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.
Utenti
Discussioni
December 2023: Willa Cather in Monthly Author Reads (Febbraio 7)
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 1983 in George Macy devotees (Febbraio 2023)
September 2021 Group Read - O! Pioneers by Willa Cather in Geeks who love the Classics (Ottobre 2021)
May Read: Willa Cather in Virago Modern Classics (Agosto 2017)
Willa Cather reading week December 7th - 14th in Virago Modern Classics (Dicembre 2014)
Willa Cather- American Author Challenge in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Novembre 2014)
September 2014: Willa Cather in Monthly Author Reads (Novembre 2014)
drneutron's 2014 Reading - Fourth Reel in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Luglio 2014)
labwriter reads Death Comes for the Archbishop in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Dicembre 2011)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 145
- Opere correlate
- 108
- Utenti
- 40,495
- Popolarità
- #434
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 941
- ISBN
- 1,756
- Lingue
- 18
- Preferito da
- 204
Come nelle altre opere qui si confermano l'incredibile sensibilità della Cather nel cogliere le sfumature dei mutamenti storici e sociali.
Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1913, "Pionieri" è il primo romanzo della Great Plains Trilogy… (altro)