This ebook compiles Willa Cather's complete novels, including "My Ántonia", "Death Comes for the Archbishop", "O Pioneers!" and "One of Ours".
This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.
Wilella Sibert Cather was born in Back Creek Valley (Gore), Virginia, in December 7, 1873.
She grew up in Virginia and Nebraska. She then attended the University of Nebraska, initially planning to become a physician, but after writing an article for the Nebraska State Journal, she became a regular contributor to this journal. Because of this, she changed her major and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English.
After graduation in 1894, she worked in Pittsburgh as writer for various publications and as a school teacher for approximately 13 years, thereafter moving to New York City for the remainder of her life.
Her novels on frontier life brought her to national recognition. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, 'One of Ours' (1922), set during World War I. She travelled widely and often spent summers in New Brunswick, Canada. In later life, she experienced much negative criticism for her conservative politics and became reclusive, burning some of her letters and personal papers, including her last manuscript.
She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943. In 1944, Cather received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments.
She died of a cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 73 in New York City.
I totally enjoyed tthe novel Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather. I tells the tale of a young priest leaving France to go to the western states of New Mexico. His journeys encounter much hardship, and ends with his death as an old man. Cather's research into the very colorful history of various towns, the incredible out of this world landscapes he has to walk through, the poverty of the people, and the harshness of the climate, all work together to build a book that I have now read at least 4 times over. Since we have recently moved to New Mexico the whole story adds extra color to our experience here.
I have also read My Antonia, and The Old Man of the Sea. I must say that I am a fan of her writing style.