AKA Willa Siber Cather

Born: 7-Dec-1873
Birthplace: Back Creek Valley, VA
Died: 24-Apr-1947
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Cerebral Hemorrhage
Remains: Buried, Old Burying Ground, Jaffrey Center, NH

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Lesbian
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: O Pioneers!

Father: Charles Cather (deputy sheriff)
Mother: Mary Virginia Boak Cather
Girlfriend: Louise Pound (at the University of Nebraska)
Girlfriend: Isabelle McClung (traveled to Europe with her, 1902)
Girlfriend: Edith Lewis (cohabited 1908 onward)

    University: University of Nebraska (1895)

    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1923 for One of Ours
    National Women's Hall of Fame 1988
    Irish Ancestry

Author of books:
April Twilights (1903, poetry)
The Troll Garden (1905)
Alexander's Bridge (1912)
O Pioneers! (1913, novel)
My Autobiography, By S. S. Mc Clure (1914)
The Song of the Lark (1915)
My Antonia (1918, novel)
Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920)
One of Ours (1922, novel)
A Lost Lady (1923, novel)
The Professor's House (1925, novel)
My Mortal Enemy (1926, novel)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927, novel)
Shadows on the Rock (1931, novel)
Obscure Destinies (1932)
Lucy Gayheart (1935, novel)
Not Under Forty (1936)
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940, novel)

Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #1487 (8 cents, issued 20-Sep-1973)

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