Willa Cather (1873–1947)

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Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her "Willa." Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a journalist and visa mer teacher while beginning her writing career. In 1906, Cather moved to New York to become a leading magazine editor at McClure's Magazine before turning to writing full-time. She continued her education, receiving her doctorate of letters from the University of Nebraska in 1917, and honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy during World War I. She also wrote The Professor's House, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Lucy Gayheart. Some of Cather's novels were made into movies, the most well-known being A Lost Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck. In 1961, Willa Cather was the first woman ever voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma in 1974, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York in 1988. Cather died on April 24, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in her Madison Avenue, New York home, where she had lived for many years. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

Inkluderar namnen: Cather, Cather W, W. Cather, Willa Catha, Will Cather, Wila Cather, Wlla Cather, Cather: Illa, Willa Cather, Willa Cather, Willa Cather, Willa Cather, Willa Carther, Carther Willa, Willa. Gather, Willy. Cather, Willa S. Cather, וילה קתר, Ed. Willa Cather, Willa Sibert Cather, Cather Willa Silbert, Willa Silbert Cather, Willa Cather; AS Byatt, W. S. (Willa Sibert) Cather, A.S. BYATT (INTRODUCTION) WILLA CATHER

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen: Cather, Wilella
Födelsedag: 1873-12-07
Avled: 1947-04-24
Begravningsplats: Old Burying Yard, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, USA
Kön: female
Nationalitet: USA
Födelseort: Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
Dödsort: New York, New York, USA
Dödsorsak: cerebral hemorrhage
Bostadsorter: Winchester, Virginia, USA
Willow Shade, Virginia, USA
Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
Red Cloud, Nebraska, USA
Catherton, Nebraska, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (visa alla 9)
New York, New York, USA
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada
Utbildning: University of Nebraska (1895)
Yrken: novelist
short-story writer
poet
essayist
drama critic
editor (visa alla 8)
teacher
reporter
Organisationer: National Institute of Arts and Letters
Pittsburgh Daily Leader
Allegheny High School, Pittsburgh
McClure's Magazine (managing editor)
Bread Loaf School of English
Priser och utmärkelser: Gold Medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1944)
Nebraska Hall of Fame (1962)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1943)
Prix Fémina Américain (1933)
New York Writers Hall of Fame (2011)
Kort biografi: Wilella "Willa" Cather was born on her maternal grandmother's farm in Back Creek Valley, near Winchester, Virginia. In 1883, when she was nine years old, the family moved to the Nebraska frontier, eventually settling in Red Cloud. She graduated in 1895 from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. A year later, she moved to Pittsburgh to work as a magazine editor and theater critic. From 1901 to 1906, she taught high school English. During this time, she published April Twilights (1903), a book of poems, and The Troll Garden (1905), a collection of short stories. At age 33, she moved to New York City.

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O pioneers! av Willa Cather

Med tanke på hur många svenskar som utvandrade till USA under senare delen av 1800-talet finns det förvånansvärt få böcker skrivna om dem: förutom Moberg tycks få författare ha getts sig på fenomenet (i alla fall med någotsånär lyckat resultat). Jag känner i alla fall bara till en till som tycks ha nått viss framgång, Willa Cathers O Pioneers! som följer Alexandra Bergson från att nybygget i Nebraska knappt lönar sig till dess att familjen är framgångsrika jordägare.

Fadern har tagit med sig familjen och utvandrat, men jorden i Nebraska tycks svårbrukad, speciellt som familjen i likhet med flera grannar egentligen inte är jordbrukare, utan medelklass som på grund av tidigare generationers slöseri utvandrat för att hitta ny utkomst. I början är det slitigt, och det blir inte lättare när fadern dör och Alexandra får ta över som den i familjen med mest förstånd: de något yngre bröderna Oscar och Lou är för inskränkta, och minstingen Emil för liten.

Alexandra lyckas, men snart uppstår slitningar och problem: ekonomiskt tycks det mesta gå dem väl i händer när de väl lyckats hitta grödor som passar jord och klimat, men Oscar och Lou småskurna ovilja att utmana konventioner gör Alexandra ensam, och Emil har trots en fin utbildning och gott huvud egna problem.

Det är inte så mycket en bok om handling som plats och stämning: det händer nog så dramatiska ting, men fokus ligger mer på den på sina sätt mycket starka och självmedvetna och på andra sätt blinda Alexandra och hennes omgivning, inte på en specifik period i hennes liv.… (mer)

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