Born in Virginia, she moved with her family to Red Cloud, Nebraska, in the 1880s, living among the newly-arrived immigrants from Europe.

She became a journalist, then a teacher, published a few short stories before becoming managing editor of McClure's and, in 1912, began writing novels full-time. She lived in her later years in New York City.

Her best-known novels include My Antonia, O Pioneers!, Song of the Lark and Death Comes for the Archbishop.

Recent biographies have speculated on Cather's gender identity issues.

Willa Cather on this site

• Willa Cather Quotations
• Some Willa Cather Poems

Willa Cather on the Web: biographies, general information

• Biography - Amy Ahearn
• Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation: historic sites, other news from "Catherland," or Red Cloud, Nebraska, Cather's childhood home.
• More on Willa Cather
• Biography - ClassicNotes
• Cather Documents in Libraries - for the serious researcher
• Bibliography

Willa Cather on the Web: online works

• The Troll Garden and Selected Stories (1905)
  • Selected Stories
    • On the Divide
    • Eric Hermannson's Soul
    • The Enchanted Bluff
    • The Bohemian Girl
  • The Troll Garden
    • Flavia and Her Artists
    • The Sculptor's Funeral
    • "A Death in the Desert"
    • The Garden Lodge
    • The Marriage of Phaedra
    • A Wagner Matinee
    • Paul's Case
• Alexander's Bridge (1912)
  • Alexander's Bridge
• O Pioneers! (1913)
  • O Pioneers!
• The Song of the Lark (1915)
  • The Song of the Lark
• My Ántonia (1918)
  • My Ántonia
  • Study Guide
• Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920)
  • Youth and the Bright Medusa
• One of Ours (1922)
  • One of Ours
  • One of Ours
• A Lost Lady
  • Study Guide
• The Professor's House (1925)
  • The Professor's House
• Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction 1892-1912 (1965)
  • Collected Short Fiction
• Willa Cather Quotations online - a list with links

About Willa Cather

• Categories: writer
• Places: Virginia, Nebraska, United States
• Period: 20th century

Also on this site

• Women Writers  
• Women of Virginia

Bibliography

• By Willa Cather
  • Coming, Aphrodite! And Other Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. Margaret Anne O'Connor, editor.
  • Lucy Gayheart
  • My Antonia
  • Shadows on the Rock
  • Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches and Letters. Brent L. Bohlke, editor.
• About Willa Cather and her work
  • Mildred R. Bennett. The World of Willa Cather.
  • Sharon O'Brien. Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice.
  • Janis P. Stout. Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World.
  • Willa Cather's New York: New Essays on Cather in the City. Merrill Maguire Skaggs, editor 
  • Merrill Maguire Skaggs. After the World Broke in Two: The Later Novels of Willa Cather.
  • Readings on My Antonia (Greenhaven Press Literary Companion to American Literature). Christopher Smith, editor.
  • Joseph R. Urgo. Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration.  

  • Laura Winters. Willa Cather: Landscape and Exile.

  • James Woodress. Willa Cather: A Literary Life.

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