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WILLA CATHER WROTE WHAT SHE LIVED
Title: WILLA CATHER WROTE WHAT SHE LIVED
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 867 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
WILLA CATHER WROTE WHAT SHE LIVED
WILLA CATHER WROTE
WHAT SHE LIVED
Sara Orne Jewett, a local colorist from Maine, once suggested that Willa Cather write from her own background. Cather followed that advice and became famous for her stories of the American frontier; especially those about heroic women who struggled to tame the prairies of Nebraska and the Southwest.
Cather's first novel was published in 1912 and was called Alexander's Bridge. In 1913 came O Pioneers! which took its title from a …showed first 75 words of 867 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 867 total…To the end of her life, she was devoted to the arts and books.
When she died in 1947, she was buried in New Hampshire. Like many of her characters, she had seen America develop from frontier to a modern country in her lifetime.
Bibliography
Bibliography:
"Cather, Willa" Discovering Authors
CD-ROM, Detroit: Gale 1996
"Cather, Willa" World Book
Encyclopedia, 1990
"Cather Timeline" Cather Biography
Internet, http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~cather/biographical.html
"Cather" Twentieth-Century Criticism
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