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Cather is a fairly recent discovery for me, so I don't know much of her work yet. She was born Wilella Cather in Virginia, U.S.A., but moved to rural Nebraska as a child, just like the male narrator of her most famous novel, the moving and delightful My Ántonia. After university, she moved back east to Pittsburgh and later New York where she worked as a teacher and magazine editor until she gave them up to concentrate on her writing.Her first two books were collections of poetry and short stories. Her first novel was Alexander's Bridge. Her most enduring work, My Ántonia (1918), is actually the third book in a trilogy dealing with European immigrants in America, starting with O Pioneers! (1913) and The Song of the Lark (1915). Each can be read on its own. Other acclaimed novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning One of Ours (1922) about a Nebraska boy fighting in the war, A Lost Lady (1923), The Professor's House (1925) and the best-selling Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) which takes place in 19th-century New Mexico. Shadows on the Rock (1931) takes place in seventeenth-century Quebec and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) is a Civil War tale. — Eric
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