Willa Cather was born in 1873 near Winchester, Virginia, and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She spent about ten years in Pittsburgh as a magazine editor and high-school teacher, then joined McClure's Magazine in 1906 and moved to New York City, where she lived for the rest of her life.
Her novels include O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Antonia (1918), One of Ours (1922) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927). She moved her books to the publisher Alfred A. Knopf in 1920, and she died in New York City in 1947.
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