Willa Cather (1873–1947) was born in Virginia and raised in the Great Plains of Nebraska, where the plainspoken language of ordinary people inspired her work. Best known for depictions of frontier life in the novels O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia, she was awarded the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel based on the wartime letters of her cousin. Cather sometimes went by the name William and for more than forty years lived with the editor Edith Lewis in New York City. She is buried in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Novel Démeublé, an essay, in Stories of the Week: 2024
- When I Knew Stephen Crane, a memoir, in Stories of the Week: 2021–2022
- On the Art of Fiction, an essay, in Stories of the Week: 2021–2022
- My Grandmother’s Garden, a novel excerpt, in Stories of the Week: 2016–2017
- The Sentimentality of William Tavener, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2014–2015
- The Captain’s Roses, a novel excerpt, in Spring 2023