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Though Willa Cather was born in Virginia, her family moved
to the Nebraska Divide when she was ten, introducing the child
to the vast, dry plains peopled by German, Swedish, Norwegian,
and Bohemian Czech immigrants. Cather graduated from the University
of Nebraska in 1896, and, moving east, she soon began writing
for magazines and journals such as McClure's in New
York City. She achieved literary fame by returning to the
people of the plains, writing three classic novels that featured
strong western women: O Pioneers! (1913), The
Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918).
Her later works include A Lost Lady (1923), The
Professor's House (1925), and Death Comes for the
Archbishop (1927).
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