Cath·er

(kăth′ər), Willa Sibert 1873-1947.

American writer noted for depicting frontier life in novels such as My Ántonia (1918) and One of Ours (1922), which won a Pulitzer Prize.

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Cather

(ˈkæðə)

(Biography) Willa (Sibert). 1873–1947, US novelist, whose works include O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918)

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Cath•er

(ˈkæð ər; often ˈkæθ-)

n.

Willa (Sibert), 1876–1947, U.S. novelist.

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Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict

With a father who was solicitor general under Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, and a husband who was co-founder of the Saturday Review of Literature, she moved in a world very different from Cather's.

THE TWO WORLDS OF WILLA CATHER AND ELINOR WYLIE

Mark Cather also had people suggesting law school as he navigated legal issues in his role as the chief security officer at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Non-traditional law students seek new skills, challenges

Cather, Jr., age 88, from Morgantown, WV, passed away on July 3, 2017, at J.W.

The WVSMA remembers our esteemed colleagues..

He is preceded in death by his wife Dorothea; his parents; son Scott; brother Ralph (the late Helen) Gallimore; and sister Louise (Ben) Cather. Memorial visitation will be held Thursday March 29 5 - 7 pm at Ringa Funeral Home 122 S.

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Synopsis: Compiled and edited by Holly Blackford (Professor of English and Writing Director at Rutgers University), "Something Complete and Great: The Centennial Study of My Antonia" is a part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series on Willa Cather. This scholarly study situates "My Antonia" as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual, and stylistic issues.

Something Complete and Great

Goodness and Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas gathers spiritual insights and writings from Pope Francis, Marianne Williamson, Thomas Merton, Willa Cather and many more writers, thinkers, and spiritual leaders, and offers a reader for all days of the Advent and Christmas season.

Goodness and Light

For Willa Cather, the place where she spent her childhood-the American Midwest-was both her inspiration and an abundant source of her art.

The importance of the Midwestern Settingin Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark and her other novels

Although The Professor s House is not her most popular book, I have to admit I'm a Cather fanatic who loved this shorter novel.

Pretty little notebook

"The bill enjoys pretty wide support," Cather stys.

Advocate corner brad gather: leading by example