Posted by on October 03, 19103 at 11:43:20:

In Reply to: Where is Willa Cather? posted by SONNET CLV on April 30, 19100 at 22:47:57:

: Hey ... when will Willa Cather have her page?

: WILLA SIBERT CATHER was born December 7, 1873, near Winchester, ia. Cather’s name was originally Willela (after her father’s younger sister who died in childhood), but the family always called her “Willie”. They did this because as a child Willa altered her name in the family Bible and insisted that she was named after her uncle William Sibert Boak (Woodress 23.) When she was nine years old, her family moved to the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska, later the setting for a number of her novels. She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After college she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh. She moved to New York City and worked for six years on the editorial staff of McClure's Magazine. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours. She died on April 24, 1947.

: Yes ... I know about Willa Cather. She wrote O PIONEERS! and THE SONG OF THE LARK. It's WILMA Cather I'm wondering about. Wilma Flintstone I know. But who is Wilma Cather?

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