Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947)
was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best
known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains
in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The
Song of the Lark.
Cather received both national and state honors. In 1973,
the United States Postal Service honored Willa Cather by
using her image on a postage stamp. In 1981 the US Mint
created the Willa Cather medallion, a half-ounce gold coin.
Cather was elected to the Nebraska Hall of Fame. In 1986,
Cather was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame.
Her alma mater, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, named residence halls
after both Cather and her college friend Louise Pound.
Pound had a lifelong career as professor of English at the
university and was the first woman president of the Modern
Language Association.
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O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants
in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn
of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family
farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a
viable enterprise at a time when other immigrant families are giving up and
leaving the prairie. The novel is also concerned with two romantic
relationships - one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum,
and another between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.
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