Essential Novelists - Willa Cather : building the american dream

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For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Willa Catherwhich areOPioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop.

Willa Cather was anovelist noted for her portrayals of the settlers and frontier life on the American plains.

Novels selected for this book:

-O Pioneers!

-Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Virginia and Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence in Grand Manan, New Brunswick.
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