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	Author Profile: Willa Cather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		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.
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	CATHER, Willa Sibert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		From her college years on, Cather had written short stories and poetry; her first published book was a collection of verse, April Twilights (1903); her first prose was a group of stories, The Troll Garden (1905).
		Cather also used the prairie setting in her next two novels, One of Ours (1922), which won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1923, and A Lost Lady (1923).
		In these her theme is the contrast between encroaching urbanization and the achievements of the pioneers.
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	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).
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	Willa Cather - Free Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		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 Collection at Bartleby.com
		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.
		Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of a Midwestern American’s journey to the front of World War I. Cather, Willa, 10993 to 11092
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	Willa Cather - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cather was born in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley but her family relocated to Nebraska in 1883 and she spent the rest of her childhood in Red Cloud, Nebraska.
		In 1973, Willa Cather was honored by the United States Postal Service with her image on a postage stamp.
		Cather is a member of the Nebraska Hall of Fame.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willa_Cather (332 words)

	Willa Sibert Cather Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The American author Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) is distinguished for her strong and sensitive evocations of prairie life in the twilight years of the midwestern frontier.
		Willa Cather was born in Winchester, Va., but at the age of 9 moved to Nebraska, where her father had bought a farm.
		Willa Cather's devotion to the land and her respect for those rooted to it imbue her work with a mystical quality.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/willa-sibert-cather (634 words)

	Willa Sibert Cather - Encyclopedia.com
		The Song of the Lark (1915) focuses on another of Cather's major preoccupations—the need of artists to free themselves from inhibiting influences, particularly that of a rural or small-town background; the tales collected in Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) and the novel Lucy Gayheart (1935) also treat this theme.
		With success and increasing age Cather became convinced that the beliefs and way of life she valued were disappearing.
		Cather herself was a master of that craft, her novels and stories written in a pellucid style of great charm and stateliness.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Cather-W.html (553 words)

	[minstrels] A Likeness -- Willa Sibert Cather
		Cather weaves the various skeins together with enviable skill (this is one of those poems I really wish I could've written), treading the well-worn territory of Ancient Roman imagery with grace and assurance, while never losing sight of her central character, and segueing smoothly into an unexpected but nonetheless perfectly harmonious last verse.
		Cather's work made her one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the 20th century.
		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.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/705.html (711 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)

	Willa Siebert Cather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Willa Sibert Cather, Nebraska's most noted novelist, was born in l873 in Virginia.
		Cather was graduated from the University of Nebraska in l895.
		Cather continued her education and received an doctorate of letters at the University of Nebraska in 1917.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/notables/cather.html (406 words)

	Willa Sibert Cather
		Wilella (Willa) Sibert Cather was born 7 December, 1873 in the Back Creek Valley of Virginia, ten miles from Winchester, the daughter of Charles Fectigue and Mary Virginia (Boak) Cather.
		Willa was the oldest of seven children, four boys and three girls.
		At the age of seventy-three Willa Cather died of a cerebral hemorrhage in New York City, April 24, 1947, and was buried, as she wished, in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, a town she had grown to love while making it a writing retreat for a few weeks each autumn.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /lib-arch/research/manuscripts/family/cather.htm (1194 words)

	Willa Cather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cather's work made her one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the 20th century.
		Critics note that the themes of her work are intertwined with the universal story of the rise of civilizations in history, the drama of the immigrant in a new world, and views of personal involvements with art.
		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.
	www.uic.edu /depts/quic/history/willa_cather.html (421 words)

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		Willa Sibert Cather, the eldest of four children in the Cather family, was born on December 7, 1873.
		Willa's behavior in her apparel upset her mother, so her concerns were now focused on turning her daughter into a lady.
		Willa "Willela" Sibert Cather was born on December 7, 1873 and died on April 24, 1947.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/cather_willa_va.htm (2379 words)

	THE LIFE AND WORKS OF WILLA SIBERT CATHER. Essay Sample. Free term papers for college students
		Willa was excited with this change, because she was free to roam outdoors.
		Willa was thought of as a "chronicler of the pioneer American West." The Song of The Lark discusses the story of a singer and their rise to success.
		Willa Cather was influenced and loved works such as: The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas), The Prisoner of Zenda (Hope), and Trilbus by George du Marier.
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	Willa Sibert Cather Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Having by then published many short stories and six novels (of an eventual twelve) and having won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours (1922), Willa Cather was already established as a major American writer of fiction.
		Any of these attitudes could be valid for Willa Cather, who to the end of her life was both brash and inquisitive, upstart child and t.....
		Willa Sibert Cather from Dictionary of Literary Biography.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/willa-sibert-cather-dlb2 (138 words)

	Cather Willa Sibert: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		William dies, and Willa Sibert Cather, journalist, editor, and author of Cather's books from April Twilights 1903 through the first edition of...
		1 Willa Cather was born, 1875, near Winchester, Va., of Charles Fectigue Cather and Virginia Sibert Boak.
		...the similarity in source of the name: Although Cathers christened name Wilella was chosen for an aunt, when she later changed Wilella to Willa and adopted the middle name Sibert she was memorializing an uncle who was a casualty...
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	Term Paper on Willa Sibert Cather
		Willa Sibert Cather was an early twentieth century writer.
		Willa was the oldest of the seven children.
		Willa has achieved a reputation as a consummate artist who probed deeply into universal realities.
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	My Antonia by Willa Sibert Cather, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0395083567
		She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
		Willa Cather's My Antonia is a great book filled with the joys, pain, tolls life had and the average person in the mid 1900's.
		Willa Cather showed the struggles an immigrant family had to over come for a better life and how after many years, hard and good times love overcomes all.
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	Written biography of Willa Sibert Cather \| Life of Willa Sibert Cather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The American author Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) is distinguished for her strong and sensitive evocations of prairie life in the twilight years of the midwestern frontier.
		Her poetic sensibility was in sharp contrast to the naturalistic and Freudian-influenced literary movements of her time.Willa Cather was born in Winchester, Va., but at the age of 9 moved to Nebraska, where her father had bought a farm.
		A cultural biography of Cather is Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World (2000).
	www.newessay.com /biographies/Willa_Sibert_Cather-34611.html (332 words)

	Willa Cather Foundation
		This question may well be asked in view of the advice given by Willa Sibert Cather, distinguished Nebraska author, in her lecture here.
		Her passion is to express herself, to reveal, as she sees it, human life with its joys and sorrows, its frailties and beauty, its needs, its aspirations, its rights that dignify it, honestly and with candor.
		Her soul was given texture and form on its sweeping plains, under its clear skies, in contact with the hardy pioneers who subdued its frontiers.
	www.willacather.org /Man_King.html (668 words)

	AllRefer.com - Willa Sibert Cather (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Willa Sibert Cather[sI´burt kath´ur] Pronunciation Key, 1873–1947, American novelist and short-story writer, b.
		The Song of the Lark (1915) focuses on another of Cather's major preoccupations : the need of artists to free themselves from inhibiting influences, particularly that of a rural or small-town background; the tales collected in Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) and the novel Lucy Gayheart (1935) also treat this theme.
		See E. Brown and L. Edel, Willa Cather: A Critical Biography (1980); S. O'Brien, Willa Cather: the Emerging Voice (1987); J. Woodres, Willa Cather: A Literary Life (1989).
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	Willa Sibert Cather Quotes
		2 Quotes for 'Willa Sibert Cather' in the Database.
		I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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	Essay on Willa Sibert Cather
		She was the first child of Charles Fectigue and Mary Cather.
		On April 24, 1947, Willa died of a cerebral hemorrhage in her apartment in Park Avenue, however, her works still live on in the short stories and novels that she wrote.
		Willa described her writing as clean, meticulous, and she called it 'demeuble,' meaning unfurnished.
	www.dedicatedwriters.com /paper/Willa_Sibert_Cather-155391.html (187 words)

	Willa Sibert Cather — Infoplease.com
		Willa Sibert Cather: "Grandmither, think not I forget" - Grandmither, think not I forget, when I come back to town, An' wander the old ways again, an' tread them up and down.
		Jessie B. Rittenhouse: The Little Book of Modern Verse - Jessie Rittenhouse is best known as an editor and for her compilations, but she was also a poet — though she did not include her own work in her compi
		Modern Verse - Jessie Rittenhouse is best known as an editor and for her compilations, but she was also a poet — though she did not include her own work in her compi
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	Cather, Willa Sibert
		Born on December 7, 1873, near Winchester, Virginia, Willa (originally Wilella) Cather moved with her family to frontier Nebraska when she was 9 and lived in the village of Red Cloud from the age of 10.
		Lucy Gayheart (1935), Cather reflected the other side of her experience--the struggle of a talent to emerge from the constricting life of the prairies and the stifling effects of small-town life.
		Cather died in New York, New York, on April 24, 1947.
	www.britanica.com /women/articles/Cather_Willa_Sibert.html (432 words)

	Willa Cather
		From her childhood days in and around Red Cloud, Nebraska, Willa Cather was known as an unconventional girl.
		In her letters to Pound, Cather regrets the fact that society considers intimate friendship between women to be unnatural.
		Cather herself would define as one of the principal qualities of her fiction "the inexplicable presence of the thing not named."
	www.bnl.gov /bera/activities/globe/willa_cather.htm (750 words)

	Willa Cather - Wikiquote
		Willa Sibert Cather (7 December 1873 – 24 April 1947) American author
		Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole— so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
		Willa Cather Electronic Archive at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Willa_Cather (773 words)

	Neighbor Rosicky Summary & Essays - Willa Sibert Cather
		Written not long after the death of her father, the story reflects a new maturity in Cather’s treatment of loss.
		Like many of the novels and stories that Cather wrote in the decades after World War I, ‘‘Neighbour Rosicky’’ also criticizes the unthinking materialism that marked the 1920s.
		Though some early critics found her approach sentimental, critics in later decades tended to applaud Cather’s portrait of an immigrant farmer whose honesty, integrity, and emotional depth help him achieve a meaningful and happy life for himself and for his family.
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