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WILLA SIBERT CATHER

AWARDS:

Pulitzer Prize for fiction from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 1923, for One of Ours

Howells Medal from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1930 for Death Comes for the Archbishop

Prix Femina Americaine, 1932, for distinguished literary accomplishment

Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1944

Honorary degrees from University of Nebraska, University of Michigan, University of California, Columbia University, Yale University, Princeton and Creighton

Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters.

WILLA SIBERT CATHER was born December 7, 1873, near Winchester, Virginia. When she was nine years old, her family moved to the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska, later the setting for a number of her novels. She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After college she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh. She moved to New York City and worked for six years on the editorial staff of McClure's Magazine. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours. She died on April 24, 1947.

Novels

BOOKS:

Alexander's Bridge (1912)

O Pioneers (1913);

The Song of the Lark (1915)

My Antonia (1918);

One of Ours (1922)

A Lost Lady (1923)

The Professor's House (1925)

My Mortal Enemy (1926);

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

Shadows on the Rock (1931) -

Lucy Gayheart (1935)

Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)

Short Stories

"The Affair at Grover Station"

The Troll Garden (1905)

Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920)

Obscure Destinies (1932)

Verse

April Twilights (1903)

Essays

Not Under Forty (1936)

Selected publications from magazines

Ardessa May, 1918

El Dorado: A Kansas Recessional 1901

The Treasure of Far Island 1902

Street in Packingtown May 1915

The Professor's Commencement 1902

On the Gull's Road 1908


	Women Writing The West \| home Inductees WILLA SIBERT CATHER AWARDS: Pulitzer Prize for fiction from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 1923, for One of Ours Howells Medal from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1930 for Death Comes for the Archbishop Prix Femina Americaine, 1932, for distinguished literary accomplishment Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1944 Honorary degrees from University of Nebraska, University of Michigan, University of California, Columbia University, Yale University, Princeton and Creighton Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters. WILLA SIBERT CATHER was born December 7, 1873, near Winchester, Virginia. When she was nine years old, her family moved to the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska, later the setting for a number of her novels. She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After college she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh. She moved to New York City and worked for six years on the editorial staff of McClure's Magazine. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours. She died on April 24, 1947. Novels BOOKS: Alexander's Bridge (1912) O Pioneers (1913); The Song of the Lark (1915) My Antonia (1918); One of Ours (1922) A Lost Lady (1923) The Professor's House (1925) My Mortal Enemy (1926); Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) Shadows on the Rock (1931) - Lucy Gayheart (1935) Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) Short Stories "The Affair at Grover Station" The Troll Garden (1905) Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) Obscure Destinies (1932) Verse April Twilights (1903) Essays Not Under Forty (1936) Selected publications from magazines Ardessa May, 1918 El Dorado: A Kansas Recessional 1901 The Treasure of Far Island 1902 Street in Packingtown May 1915 The Professor's Commencement 1902 On the Gull's Road 1908