Willa Cather

Willa Cather was born in Virginia in 1873 and left at the age of nine for Nebraska, where she grew up among Scandinavian, Czech and German immigrant families. As an adolescent, she signed herself William and wore her hair short and boys' clothes. A journalist in Pittsburgh, then editor-in-chief of a New York magazine that she left in 1912 in order to write, she produced a dozen novels. She lived for nearly forty years with Edith Lewis, burned a large part of her letters and forbade in her will the publication of the others. She died in New York in 1947.

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• NovelOne of OursWilla Cather · 1922Literature