Willa Cather

Willa Cather was an American author of many great novels. She won the Pulitzer Prize for "One of her Own," but many believe that her best novel was "My Antonia." She and her parents moved to a farm near Red Cloud, Nebraska in the 1880s. Later they would move into the town of Red Cloud. Many of the characters in her novels were based on people from this small town. In "My Antonia," the town was called Blackhawk. The Willa Cather Foundation has restored the home of her childhood, and many thousands of people visit her former home each year. It is like taking a visit back into time because many of the books of her childhood and many of the things of her parents and grandmother are there. Cather is best known for the trilogy novels about Nebraska pioneers--"O Pioneers," "The Song of the Lark," and "My Antonia."