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	Author Profile: Willa Cather
		Willa Sibert Cather was born in the home of her maternal grandmother in 1873 in the bluegrass region of western Virginia.
		Cather’s name was originally Willela (after her father’s younger sister who died in childhood), but the family always called her "Willie." They did this because as a child Willa altered her name in the family Bible and insisted that she was named after her uncle William Sibert Boak.
		Willa Cather was born in 1875 in Virginia.
	www.teenreads.com /authors/au-cather-willa.asp (1734 words)

	Willa Cather - MSN Encarta
		Willa Cather (1873-1947), American writer, one of the country's foremost novelists, whose carefully crafted prose conveys vivid pictures of the American landscape and the people it molded.
		Influenced by the prose of the American regional writer Sarah Orne Jewett, Cather set many of her works in Nebraska and the American Southwest, areas with which she was familiar from her childhood.
		Cather also used the prairie setting in her novels One of Ours (1922; Pulitzer Prize, 1923) and A Lost Lady (1923).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571395/Willa_Cather.html (438 words)

	Willa Cather - Biography and Works
		Cather entered the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1891 with her sights set on studying science, though a professor's submitting one of her papers, an essay on Carlyle, to the school newspaper the Nebraska State Journal, caused her to rethink her career plans.
		Willa Cather died on 24 April 1947 of cerebral haemorrhage at her Madison Avenue apartment in New York city and was buried in the Old Burying Ground of Jaffrey Centre, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, on a special hillside spot she had selected.
		The Willa Cather Historical Center by the Nebraska State Historical Society works in honour of her memory and there is also a tribute to her in the naming of the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie.
	www.online-literature.com /willa-cather (1189 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Willa Cather
		Willa Cather was born on December 7, 1873 in Back Creek Valley (a small farming community close to the Blue Ridge Mountains) in Virginia.
		Her mother was a vain woman, mostly concerned with fashion and trying to turn Willa into "a lady", in spite of the fact that Willa defied the norms for girls and cut her hair short and wore trousers.
		Willa Cather was buried in New Hampshire; in Red Cloud, the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Foundation was created to honor her memory.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Authors/about_willa_cather.html (833 words)

	American Masters . Willa Cather \| PBS
		Cather herself complained in a 1922 essay that "the novel, for a long while, has been over-furnished." Intent on telling the truths of a particular time and place, she made her own prose as spare as the land about which she was writing, and became a pioneer in American fiction.
		Willa Cather was born on December 7, 1873, near the town of Winchester, Virginia, in the North Neck region of the state, where her ancestors had farmed since the late 18th century.
		Cather said in a 1921 interview that the years from eight to 15were particularly formative in any writer's life; clearly, for her, it was the experience of moving to Nebraska and absorbing its pioneer culture that first inspired her as a writer and gave us the most beloved of her novels.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/cather_w.html (3720 words)

	Document Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Willa Cather was born December 7, 1873, in Black Creek Valley (Gore) Virginia, where she remained until the age of nine when she moved with her family to Webster County, Nebraska.
		Cather's themes, too, changed during this period, as she turned from the passion of individuals aspiring to greatness and began writing of compassion of ordinary people who, confronting mortality, seek comfort in the human family.
		For during her final years Cather felt the horror of events leading to another world war, the pain over deaths of family and friends, and the frustration from an inflammation of her hand that meant an inability to write.
	info.neded.org /stathand/parttwo/cather.htm (820 words)

	Willa Cather Biography and Summary
		Willa Cather is an outstanding example of a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a sense of place and at the same time universal in its treatment of theme and character.
		Willa Cather is a splendid example of a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a sense of place and at the same time universal in its treatment of theme and character.
		Willa Cather, variously perceived by critics as realistic, regionalist, or sentimental, as well as an unusual literary stylist of unhurried elegance, memorably exploited themes long regarded as part of the American mythos.
	www.bookrags.com /Willa_Cather (620 words)

	Tantor Audio Books : Willa Cather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cather's fiction is characterized by a strong sense of place, the subtle presentation of human relationships, an often-unconventional narrative structure, and a style of clarity and beauty.
		Willa attributed the family’s lack of financial success to her father, whom she claimed placed intellectual and spiritual matters over the business.
		Cather’s prolific success lead to a period of despair but, when she recovered she wrote some of her greatest novels including “The Professor's House”, “My Mortal Enemy”, and “Death Comes for the Archbishop”.
	www.tantor.com /AuthorDetail.asp?Author=Cather_W (338 words)

	Willa Cather: Domestic Goddess
		Willa Cather was born in December of 1873.
		Cather once said that she belonged to a world that had split in two and, as a woman of two centuries-- the conservative nineteenth and the twentieth-- she certainly bridged quite a gap.
		Cather once said that during the trip from her birthplace in Virginia, she imagined that, "I had left even their spirits [her grandparents] behind me. The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither.
	www.womenwriters.net /domesticgoddess/cather1.htm (599 words)

	PAL: Willa Cather (1873-1947)
		Willa Cather : a study of the short fiction.
		Pitcher, Edward W. "Willa Cather's 'Paul's Case' and the Faustian Temperament." Studies in short fiction 28.4 (Fall 1991): 543-.
		Her novels and stories chronicle the frontier experience, the plight of the artist during the age of industrialism and progress, and the alienation and initiation of the young.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap7/cather.html (666 words)

	Willa Cather - Free Online Library
		Willa Sibert Cather, Nebraska's most noted novelist, was born in 1873 in Virginia.
		Cather was graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1895.
		Cather continued her education and received a doctorate of letters at the University of Nebraska in 1917.
	cather.thefreelibrary.com (468 words)

	Willa Cather: Her Life and Love
		Willa Siebert Cather was born in Black Creek Valley, Virginia, near Winchester, on December 7, 1873.
		Cather even went so far as to pose as her imaginary twin brother, William, while a student at the University of Nebraska.
		According to Quistory, Cather's heart belonged to McClung for the rest of her life, even though Cather's closest relationship was with her lifetime companion, an editor by the name of Edith Lewis.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/4925/Willa.html (494 words)

	Willa Cather
		Cather destroyed most of her personal correspondence before her death and it is thought that she would have challenged attempts to find lesbian context in her work.
		She dwells predominantly on Cather’s relationship with her beloved friend Louise Pound and says “That Willa Cather was a lesbian should not be an unexamined assumption, however, but a conclusion reached after considering questions of definition, evidence and interpretation.” (127).
		Willa Cather was born on December 7, 1873, in Black Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/c/cather_willa.htm (1096 words)

	Willa Cather
		Cather's work made her one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the 20th century.
		Willa Cather Electronic Archive: In the Archive's own words, "The goal of this electronic archive is to provide broad access to a variety of material documenting and contextualizing the work of one of America's most acclaimed writers.
		Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation: Lots of info, lots of links, lots of connection to the homeland of Cather's heart.
	www.apurnell.com /wilreadings/Cather.htm (924 words)

	Willa Cather - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Willa Cather was born in Gore, Virginia, on December 7, 1873.
		Cather was born into the Baptist faith but converted to Episcopalianism in 1922, having begun to attend Sunday services in the church as early as 1906.
		Cather died in 1947 in New York, in the apartment she shared with Lewis, and is buried in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willa_Cather (765 words)

	Willa Cather
		Indeed, Willa Cather was as provincial as Hawthorne or Flaubert or Turgenev, as little concerned with aesthetics and as much with morals as Tolstoy, as obstinately reserved as Melville.
		Although Cather lived as an adult in Pittsburgh and New York City, the wide open spaces, bare "as a piece of sheet iron", and its people formed the background for half of her novels and many short stories depicting the frontier life on the American plains.
		Cather studied at Latin School (1891-92), and the University of Nebraska, receiving her BA in 1895.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /wcather.htm (1675 words)

	Amazon.com: My Antonia: Books: Willa Cather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		As with all of Cather's novels, the prairie town of Black Hawk (which, is of course, Cather's hometown of Red Cloud), is populated with a variety of hirelings and homesteaders, dreamers and pretenders, romantics and scoundrels.
		Cather wrote: "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before." I think she believed certain sub-plots arise with unexpected intensity because cultural rules often dictate that certain behaviors are improper or immoral to even discuss.
		Cather was poetic in tone and released the questing voice of her mind in the words of her characters.
	www.amazon.com /My-Antonia-Willa-Cather/dp/039575514X (3635 words)

	Willa Cather
		Willa spent much of her time divided between her father, whom she helped in the fields tending to the sheep, and going with her grandmother and friend Margie Anderson “on errands of mercy and medicine, or [with] her mother on visits to cousins, neighbors or dependents” (21).
		It was her letter to Cather in 1908, stating that Cather ought to leave McClure’s and focus on her writing, that caused Cather to save up for four years to quit the magazine in 1912.
		Cather was a modernist, but more than that, she was an amazing writer whose novels and writings are relevant and still touch readers today as they did when she had first written them.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/sd224/Classes/WomenandModernsim/Reports/CatherReport.htm (1025 words)

	The Unconventional Willa Cather
		Cather was born in 1873 in Back Creek, Virginia, and her childhood was uprooted by the legacy of the Civil War.
		Cather earned a reputation as a blunt and opinionated critic, whom her delighted editor described as a "meat-ax." Of actor Lewis Morrison, Cather wrote: "Mediocrity is of all things the most hopeless.
		Cather took a leave of absence and continued past Nebraska, which was already losing its frontier flavor, to visit her brother Roscoe in Arizona.
	www.neh.gov /news/humanities/2005-07/cather.html (2072 words)

	English 100 Lehigh: Willa Cather
		I chose Willa Cather, because I remember learning(while reading My Antonia)that she was one of the first American female writers to break the gender barrier.
		Willa then began to submit work under the name "Will" Cather, the publishing companies then began to accept her work as well as compliment it.
		Willa Cather was born in 1873 in Virgina.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/10/willa-cather_11.html (146 words)

	PAL: Willa Cather (1873-1947)
		Willa Cather, who was named after William Lee Boak (her mother’s brother who served in the Civil War) was born on December 7, 1873, in Black Creek Valley, near Gore, Virginia to Charles Fectigue Cather and Mary Virginia Boak.
		Charles Cather “was a sensitive young man [and] and quiet in nature as the Black countryside” while Mary Boak’s “sparkling vitality presented a striking contrast both to her environment and to her husband” (Brown 11).
		Cather was too ill to tend Willa’s curls, so Willa marched to the barber and had her hair cut like a boy’s” (Brown 16).
	web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap7/cather.html (2004 words)

	The Willa Cather Archive \| Cather Studies, Vol. 3
		Though Cather is elsewhere careful to distance herself from art that too loudly proclaims a break with the old, her comments on the relation of The Professor's House to visual art and sonata form are unmistakable evidence of her own desire to make it new.
		Cather's simile suggests no easy union of the two elements of the double life; rather, it dramatizes the difficulty of achieving such a union, with St. Peter's personal memories functioning as a private mental accompaniment to the chapters of his books.
		Cather's simile has difficulties either way: a relation between borders and main scenes hardly suggests a healthy union of family life and private scholarship, for on that account the events of St. Peter's family life would form a commentary on his Spanish Adventurers, a bizarre possibility reminiscent of Nabokov's Pale Fire.
	cather.unl.edu /scholarship/cs/vol3/distant.html (4073 words)

	Willa Cather Collection at Bartleby.com
		(Cather, Willa Sibert) 1873–1947, American novelist and short-story writer, b.
		Winchester, Va., considered one of the great American writers of the 20th cent.… Her intense interest in the craft of fiction is shown in the essays in Not Under Forty (1936) and On Writing (1949).
		Cather herself was a master of that craft, her novels and stories written in a pellucid style of great charm and stateliness.—Continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
	www.bartleby.com /people/Cather-W.html (165 words)

	Willa Cather
		Cather was educated at home, and later she attended Red Cloud High School.
		My Antonia is among Cather's finest work, but later critics have also pointed out that though Cather did not deal specifically with lesbianism, normal sex stands barred from her fictional world and her male characters often have female attitudes and interests.
		In 1922 Cather won the Pulizer Prize for her novel One of Ours, which depicted a boy from the Western plains, who leaves home to fight in World War I and is killed during in France.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.156 (998 words)

	Fiction: Willa Cather
		Willa Cather (1873-1947) once wrote that "a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies." She was thirty-nine before she found her true subject.
		The oldest of seven children, Cather was raised in a loving home, but she hated the frontier prairie village of Red Cloud, Nebraska, where her family finally settled after leaving University of Nebraska, studying classics.
		The most important influence on Cather's work was Sarah Orne Jewett, who taught her that beautiful writing is a consequence of steady concentration on a thoroughly understood subject.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/cather.htm (345 words)

	Willa Cather
		In time, Cather crafted a makeshift study for herself in an alcove on the stairs so that she had a place where she could read and write.
		Red Cloud became the setting and inspiration for many of Cather's novels, and she drew heavily for her characters upon the frontier mentality of the Bohemian, Swedish, and other European immigrants, as well as the Native Americans of the region who settled the prairie along the Divide.
		Willa Sibert Cather died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 24, 1947.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-120704-cather.html (642 words)

	Willa Cather: Queering America College Literature - Find Articles
		Joseph Urgo's Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration (1995) and my own Willa Cather in Context (1996) uncovered a Cather attuned to a progressive, even liberal agenda: a writer fascinated by otherness and a postmodern sense of mobility.
		She notes of Cather's essay on Annie Fields that it represents a literary history encompassing "the gentility of nineteenth-century Boston and the 'tumult' of twentieth-- century New York, the traditional and the `queer,' the male-authored and the female-- authored" (85).
		Indeed, the kind of long-term, homosocial relationship Cather had with Edith Lewis was known as a "Boston marriage." Lindemann's sentences turn on antitheses, and tend to deploy "queer" as the radical pole of an opposition whose other pole is the traditional or the straight; but the construction of polarities is sometimes strained.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3709/is_200010/ai_n8927516 (787 words)

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