Willa Cather

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This1895 graduate of the University of Nebraska was both managing editor of the school paper & literary editor of her yearbook Willa Cather $2,000 DJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 2024-02-21 #9043
She wrote a couple of famous "teen" novels, "O Pioneers!" from 1913 & "My Antonia" from 1918 Willa Cather $2,000 DJ AMERICAN LIT 2013-02-12 #6542
Her 1922 novel "One of Ours" tells the tale of a Nebraska farm boy who dies in WWI (Nebraska is your big clue) Willa Cather $1,200 DJ AMERICAN LIT 2008-09-15 #5521
In 1884 she moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska & later fictionalized it as the town of Hanover in "O Pioneers!" Willa Cather $400 J AMERICAN AUTHORS 2007-05-30 #5243
The town of Red Cloud, Nebraska has a historical center devoted to this author Willa Cather $300 J AMERICAN AUTHORS 1998-04-14 #3147
Her only Pulitzer Prize for fiction was for "One of Ours", not "My Antonia" Willa Cather $800 DJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 1994-01-21 #2165
Her "Death Comes for the Archbishop" was inspired by the letters of the real-life Father Machebeuf Willa Cather DD $1,000 DJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 1993-09-20 #2076
Her 1913 novel "O Pioneers!" tells the story of Swedish settlers in Nebraska Willa Cather $1,000 DJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 1991-03-20 #1518
Her fascination with the SW & the Catholic Church is demonstrated in "Death Comes for the Archbishop" Willa Cather $1,000 DJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 1989-12-22 #1225
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