Willa Cather (1873–1947)
Auteur de Mon Antonia
A propos de l'auteur
Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her "Willa." Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a journalist and afficher plus teacher while beginning her writing career. In 1906, Cather moved to New York to become a leading magazine editor at McClure's Magazine before turning to writing full-time. She continued her education, receiving her doctorate of letters from the University of Nebraska in 1917, and honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy during World War I. She also wrote The Professor's House, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Lucy Gayheart. Some of Cather's novels were made into movies, the most well-known being A Lost Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck. In 1961, Willa Cather was the first woman ever voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma in 1974, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York in 1988. Cather died on April 24, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in her Madison Avenue, New York home, where she had lived for many years. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Willa Cather
Early Novels and Stories: The Troll Garden / O Pioneers! / The Song of the Lark / My Antonia / One of Ours (1987) 532 exemplaires
Later Novels: A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy… (1990) 477 exemplaires
Delphi Collected Works of Willa Cather (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Ten Book 5) (2019) 14 exemplaires
Set of 3 Book of the Month Club (Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Ántonia, O Pioneers!) (1996) 13 exemplaires
Willa Cather: Four Great Novels—O Pioneers!, One of Ours, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia (2014) 11 exemplaires
The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896 (1967) 9 exemplaires
December night: A scene from Willa Cather's novel "Death comes for the archbishop" (1933) 7 exemplaires
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather "The Annotated Classic Edition" Uniquely Epic American Novel (2020) 6 exemplaires
Classic American Literature: 5 novels and 2 collections by Willa Cather, in a single file, improved 8/16/2010 (2008) 5 exemplaires
My Ántonia: 100th Anniversary Edition with introduction, context, biography and analysis (2018) 5 exemplaires
Death Comes for the Archbishop with Related Readings (The Glencoe Literature Library) (2002) 4 exemplaires
The Best Years [short story] 3 exemplaires
Willa Cather: Three Novel & Selected Stories (O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, Alexander's Bridge) (1993) 3 exemplaires
Old Mrs. Harris 3 exemplaires
Before Breakfast [short story] 2 exemplaires
The World and the Parish, Volume 2: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 (1970) 2 exemplaires
Willa Cather's Collected Works: My Ántonia, Song of the Lark, One of Ours, O Pioneers, The Profile, And More! (2013) 2 exemplaires
On Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art 2 exemplaires
The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends 2 exemplaires
Willa Cather Collection (My Ántonia, The Song of the Lark, O Pioneers!, and One of Ours) (2012) 2 exemplaires
Works of Willa Cather. Alexander's Bridge, O Pioneers!, Song of the Lark, My Antonia, One of Ours, Stories & more… (2009) 2 exemplaires
Great American Short Stories (Act of Faith - Paul's Case - The Great Stone Face) (2005) 1 exemplaire
[No title] 1 exemplaire
Prarie Trilogy, The 1 exemplaire
The World and the Parish, Volume 1: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 (1970) 1 exemplaire
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 069 1 exemplaire
Poranek wagnerowski : opowiadania 1 exemplaire
Willa Cather: The Complete Novels (My Ántonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, O Pioneers!, One of Ours...) 1 exemplaire
Two Friends 1 exemplaire
The Essential Willa Cather: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, and One of Ours with an Introduction… (2017) 1 exemplaire
The Big Book of Christmas: 140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols 1 exemplaire
The Troll Garden And Other Stories (Mint Editions (Short Story Collections and Anthologies)) (2020) 1 exemplaire
Consequences 1 exemplaire
Works of Willa Cather (8 Works) 1 exemplaire
Katherine Mansfield 1 exemplaire
The Clemency of the Court 1 exemplaire
Selected Short Stories 1 exemplaire
Obscure Destinies / Literary Encounters 1 exemplaire
Cather Willa (Cather Sibert Wilella) 1 exemplaire
The Novel Démeublé 1 exemplaire
148 Charles Street 1 exemplaire
Miss Jewett 1 exemplaire
Joseph and His Brothers 1 exemplaire
The Joy of Nelly Deane [short story] 1 exemplaire
Cather, Willa Archive 1 exemplaire
Willa Cather - The Library of America Set Complete in 3 Volumes (1. Early Novels & Stories; 2. Stories, Poems and Other… (1987) 1 exemplaire
The Willa Cather Archive (online) 1 exemplaire
Willa Cather: Collected Works & 8 Free Audiobooks 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (1896) — Preface, quelques éditions — 983 exemplaires
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (1985) — Contributeur — 855 exemplaires
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contributeur — 447 exemplaires
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contributeur — 264 exemplaires
Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction (1990) — Contributeur — 250 exemplaires
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contributeur — 201 exemplaires
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Contributeur — 195 exemplaires
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 (1998) — Contributeur — 170 exemplaires
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 153 exemplaires
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributeur — 133 exemplaires
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contributeur — 93 exemplaires
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributeur — 83 exemplaires
May Your Days Be Merry and Bright: Christmas Stories by Women (1988) — Contributeur — 52 exemplaires
Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women (1997) — Contributeur — 50 exemplaires
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contributeur — 47 exemplaires
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett (1959) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 43 exemplaires
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 2: Love, Marriage, and the Family (1966) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires
60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures: Riders of the Purple… 33 exemplaires
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
Three Classics by American Women: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers! (1990) — quelques éditions — 25 exemplaires
Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (Perennial library ; P 502) (1980) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires
Best-Loved Short Stories: Flaubert, Chekhov, Kipling, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Poe and Others (2004) — Contributeur — 23 exemplaires
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
Once Upon a Childhood: Stories and Memories of American Youth (2004) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Pulitzer Prize Winning Works Collection: One of Ours, His Family, Miss Lulu Bett, Cornhuskers, Anna Christie, Alice… (2013) 4 exemplaires
The Best Short Stories of 1929 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1929) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War (2014) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 1 (1953) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
A Modern Galaxy: Short Stories — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Song of the Lark [2001 TV movie] — Original book — 1 exemplaire
La nueva mujer: Relatos de escritoras estadounidenses del siglo XIX — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Avon Modern Short Story Monthly No. 7 (14 Great stories by 14 Great Authors) (1943) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Trumps: A Collection of Short Stories — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Cather, Wilella
- Date de naissance
- 1873-12-07
- Date de décès
- 1947-04-24
- Lieu de sépulture
- Old Burying Yard, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, USA
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Cause du décès
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Lieux de résidence
- Winchester, Virginia, USA
Willow Shade, Virginia, USA
Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
Red Cloud, Nebraska, USA
Catherton, Nebraska, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (tout afficher 9)
New York, New York, USA
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada - Études
- University of Nebraska (1895)
- Professions
- novelist
short-story writer
poet
essayist
drama critic
editor (tout afficher 8)
teacher
reporter - Organisations
- National Institute of Arts and Letters
Pittsburgh Daily Leader
Allegheny High School, Pittsburgh
McClure's Magazine (managing editor)
Bread Loaf School of English - Prix et distinctions
- Gold Medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1944)
Nebraska Hall of Fame (1962)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1943)
Prix Fémina Américain (1933)
New York Writers Hall of Fame (2011) - Courte biographie
- Wilella "Willa" Cather was born on her maternal grandmother's farm in Back Creek Valley, near Winchester, Virginia. In 1883, when she was nine years old, the family moved to the Nebraska frontier, eventually settling in Red Cloud. She graduated in 1895 from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. A year later, she moved to Pittsburgh to work as a magazine editor and theater critic. From 1901 to 1906, she taught high school English. During this time, she published April Twilights (1903), a book of poems, and The Troll Garden (1905), a collection of short stories. At age 33, she moved to New York City.
Membres
Discussions
December 2023: Willa Cather à Monthly Author Reads (Février 7)
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 1983 à George Macy devotees (Février 2023)
September 2021 Group Read - O! Pioneers by Willa Cather à Geeks who love the Classics (Octobre 2021)
May Read: Willa Cather à Virago Modern Classics (Août 2017)
Willa Cather reading week December 7th - 14th à Virago Modern Classics (Décembre 2014)
Willa Cather- American Author Challenge à 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Novembre 2014)
September 2014: Willa Cather à Monthly Author Reads (Novembre 2014)
drneutron's 2014 Reading - Fourth Reel à 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Juillet 2014)
labwriter reads Death Comes for the Archbishop à 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Décembre 2011)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 145
- Aussi par
- 108
- Membres
- 40,584
- Popularité
- #433
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 943
- ISBN
- 1,756
- Langues
- 18
- Favoris
- 204
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