Willa Cather
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Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize fo
Cather in 1936
Willa Cather Childhood Home, Red Cloud, Nebraska
Willa Cather in the Mesa Verde wilds, c. 1915
A bust of Cather created in 1962 by Paul Swan for the Nebraska Hall of Fame
Edith Lewis
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Edith Lewis was a magazine editor at McClure's Magazine, the managing editor of Every Week Magazine, and an advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson. Lewis was Willa Cather's domestic partner and
Willa Cather
…spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. She spent the last 39 years of her life with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, before being diagnosed with breast cancer and dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Cather and Lewis are buried together in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Cather…
Lewis's passport photograph, 1920
Edith Lewis' grave in Jaffrey, New Hampshire