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
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory.
Willa Cather
…established as a major American writer, receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her World War I-based novel, One of Ours. She followed it with the popular Death Comes for the Archbishop in 1927, selling 86,500 copies in just two years. It has been included on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th century. Two of her three other…
First edition dust jacket
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