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Willa Cather

1873 - 1947

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Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old. The family later settled in the town of Red Cloud. Shortly after graduating from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Cather moved to Pittsburgh for 10 years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Willa Cather is the 2,952nd most popular writer (up from 3,277th in 2019), the 4,242nd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,161st in 2019) and the 339th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Willa Cather ranks 2,952 out of 7,302. Before her are Champfleury, Knud Knudsen, Günter Eich, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and Victor Segalen. After her are Miklós Radnóti, Casimir Delavigne, Lola Anglada, Lupus Servatus, Aristeas, and Boris Pilnyak.

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Among people born in 1873, Willa Cather ranks 97. Before her are Henri Helle, Józef Haller, Daisy, Princess of Pless, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Matteo Bartoli, and José Martínez Ruiz. After her are Gyula Peidl, Henry, Duke of Parma, Marcel Boulenger, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Marija Jurić Zagorka, and Nikolai Tcherepnin. Among people deceased in 1947, Willa Cather ranks 117. Before her are Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, Anton Schall, Gyula Károlyi, Ivan Regen, Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt, and Walter Donaldson. After her are Stepan Petrichenko, Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Charles Frédéric Petit, Hendrik van Gent, Theodore Romzha, and Evelyn McHale.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Willa Cather ranks 4,242 out of 20,380. Before her are Scott Walker (1943), Percy Sledge (1941), Patricia McPherson (1954), Scott Bakula (1954), Sarah Clarke (1972), and Diane Venora (1952). After her are Cassie Ventura (1986), Richard M. Karp (1935), Fred Brooks (1931), Beatrice Straight (1914), Angelo Dundee (1921), and David Petraeus (1952).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Willa Cather ranks 339. Before her are Edward Bunker (1933), Eric Carle (1929), Carl Bernstein (1944), Richard Wright (1908), Joe Hill (1972), and K. A. Applegate (1956). After her are Mickey Spillane (1918), Edgar Lee Masters (1868), L. Sprague de Camp (1907), Bruce Sterling (1954), R. A. Salvatore (1959), and Anne McCaffrey (1926).

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