Willa Cather, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Willa Cather

American writer and novelist

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1873

Place of Birth: Gore, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 24-Apr-1947

Profession: writer, poet, biographer, journalist, novelist, essayist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Willa Sibert Cather (; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918).
In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher.
At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.



Alternative names	Carl Van Vetchen; Carl van Vechten
Description	American writer and photographer
Date of birth/death	17 June 1880	21 December 1964
Location of birth/death	Cedar Rapids	New York City
Authority control	: Q312851 VIAF: 5056030 ISNI: 0000 0001 1558 7789 ULAN: 500058409 LCCN: n78095475 NLA: 35576955 WorldCat