Person Detail: Willa Sibert Cather

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General Information:
Full Name: Willa Sibert Cather
Biography: (1873-1947) Novelist, short-story writer. Willa Cather is considered one of the great American writers of the 20th century. She lived at 60 Washington Square, Greenwich Village, New York, New York, then 82 Washington Place, 5 Bank Street, and later at the Hotel Grosvenor. After some time working as a journalist and a teacher in Pittsburgh, she came to New York City in 1904, publishing a book of her short stories, "The Troll Garden" (1905), which gained her an appointment to the editorial staff of McClure's Magazine. Ms. Cather wrote the novels "O Pioneers!" (1913), "My Ántonia" (1918), "The Song of the Lark" (1915), "Death Come for the Archbishop" (1927), and others. Ms. Cather moved from Washington Place to an address at 5 Bank Street where she did most of her writing, and which has since been torn down for the subway.
Author's Timeline:
1904		New York County Ms. Cather moved to New York, New York, in 1904 and lived at 60 Washington Square, Greenwich Village, then 82 Washington Place, 5 Bank Street, and later at the Hotel Grosvenor.
1873		(Unknown) County Willa Cather was born in Back Creek Valley, near Winchester, Virginia, in 1873.
1922		(Unknown) County One Of Ours Novel; received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1923.
1947		New York County Willa Cather died in New York, New York, on April 24, 1947.
1905		(Unknown) County The Troll Garden Short story collection.
1913		(Unknown) County O Pioneers! Novel.
1918		(Unknown) County My Antonia Novel.
1915		(Unknown) County The Song Of The Lark Novel.
1927		(Unknown) County Death Comes For The Archbishop Novel.
1920		(Unknown) County Youth And The Bright Medusa
1923		(Unknown) County A Lost Lady Novel.
1931		(Unknown) County Shadows On The Rock Novel.
1912		(Unknown) County Alexander's Bridge Novel.
1903		(Unknown) County April Twilights Poetry collection.
1947		(Unknown) County Willa Cather is buried in the Old Burying Ground in Jaffrey Center, New Hampshire.