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Willa Cather (1873–1947)

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Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her "Willa." Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a journalist and mostrar más teacher while beginning her writing career. In 1906, Cather moved to New York to become a leading magazine editor at McClure's Magazine before turning to writing full-time. She continued her education, receiving her doctorate of letters from the University of Nebraska in 1917, and honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy during World War I. She also wrote The Professor's House, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Lucy Gayheart. Some of Cather's novels were made into movies, the most well-known being A Lost Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck. In 1961, Willa Cather was the first woman ever voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma in 1974, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York in 1988. Cather died on April 24, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in her Madison Avenue, New York home, where she had lived for many years. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Series

Obras de Willa Cather

Mi Antonia (1918) 13,551 copias
Pioneros (1913) 6,312 copias
La muerte llama al arzobispo (1927) 5,896 copias
The Professor's House (1925) 1,928 copias
Una dama extraviada (1923) 1,617 copias
Uno de los nuestros (1922) 1,216 copias
Shadows on the Rock (1931) 864 copias
Sapphira y la joven esclava (1940) 675 copias
MI ENEMIGO MORTAL (1926) 598 copias
Lucy Gayheart (1935) 562 copias
Alexander's Bridge (1912) 456 copias
Collected Stories (1992) 301 copias
The Troll Garden (1905) 254 copias
Obscure Destinies (1932) 208 copias
Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) 176 copias
Five Stories (1956) 164 copias
The Old Beauty and Others (1948) 121 copias
Para mayores de cuarenta (1936) 94 copias
El caso de Paul (1986) 60 copias
Willa Cather: 24 Stories (1988) 55 copias
Classic Westerns (Leather-bound Classics) (2017) — Contribuidor — 51 copias
My Ántonia / O Pioneers! (1995) 43 copias
Neighbor Rosicky (1986) 26 copias
The Willa Cather Reader (1997) 24 copias
American Pioneer Writers (1991) 16 copias
O Pioneers! [1992 TV movie] (1992) — Autor — 16 copias
The Burglar's Christmas (1896) 15 copias
Coming, Aphrodite! (2008) 9 copias
Los libros de cuentos (2006) 8 copias
The Sculptor's Funeral (2005) 7 copias
Vintage Cather (2004) 7 copias
A Gold Slipper (2010) 5 copias
The Bohemian Girl (2008) 4 copias
A Death in the Desert (2005) 4 copias
The Diamond Mine (2010) 4 copias
Scandal (2010) 3 copias
Old Mrs. Harris 3 copias
The Enchanted Bluff (2013) 3 copias
The Old Beauty (1948) 3 copias
Cather studies. Volume 2 (1993) 2 copias
Willa Cather: 47 Works (2014) 2 copias
Two Friends 1 copia
A Lost lady 1 copia
O pioniers! (2019) 1 copia
Miss Jewett 1 copia
Consequences 1 copia
My Ántonia: A Play (2013) 1 copia
Early Short Stories (2004) 1 copia
Flavia and Her Artists (2013) 1 copia
[No title] 1 copia

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Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre legal
Cather, Wilella
Fecha de nacimiento
1873-12-07
Fecha de fallecimiento
1947-04-24
Lugar de sepultura
Old Burying Yard, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, USA
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
New York, New York, USA
Causa de fallecimiento
cerebral hemorrhage
Lugares de residencia
Winchester, Virginia, USA
Willow Shade, Virginia, USA
Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA
Red Cloud, Nebraska, USA
Catherton, Nebraska, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (mostrar todos 9)
New York, New York, USA
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada
Educación
University of Nebraska (1895)
Ocupaciones
novelist
short-story writer
poet
essayist
drama critic
editor (mostrar todos 8)
teacher
reporter
Organizaciones
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Pittsburgh Daily Leader
Allegheny High School, Pittsburgh
McClure's Magazine (managing editor)
Bread Loaf School of English
Premios y honores
Gold Medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1944)
Nebraska Hall of Fame (1962)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1943)
Prix Fémina Américain (1933)
New York Writers Hall of Fame (2011)
Biografía breve
Wilella "Willa" Cather was born on her maternal grandmother's farm in Back Creek Valley, near Winchester, Virginia. In 1883, when she was nine years old, the family moved to the Nebraska frontier, eventually settling in Red Cloud. She graduated in 1895 from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. A year later, she moved to Pittsburgh to work as a magazine editor and theater critic. From 1901 to 1906, she taught high school English. During this time, she published April Twilights (1903), a book of poems, and The Troll Garden (1905), a collection of short stories. At age 33, she moved to New York City.

Miembros

Debates

December 2023: Willa Cather en Monthly Author Reads (Febrero 7)
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 1983 en George Macy devotees (Febrero 2023)
September 2021 Group Read - O! Pioneers by Willa Cather en Geeks who love the Classics (octubre 2021)
May Read: Willa Cather en Virago Modern Classics (agosto 2017)
Willa Cather reading week December 7th - 14th en Virago Modern Classics (diciembre 2014)
Willa Cather- American Author Challenge en 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (noviembre 2014)
September 2014: Willa Cather en Monthly Author Reads (noviembre 2014)
drneutron's 2014 Reading - Fourth Reel en 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (julio 2014)
labwriter reads Death Comes for the Archbishop en 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (diciembre 2011)

Reseñas

Lucy Gayheart (1935) es una de las últimas novelas de Willa Cather, inédita hasta ahora en español. En ella sus grandes temas –la oposición entre valores rústicos y urbanos, la tragedia que acecha a la inocencia, el arte como conflictiva forma de elevación– se conjugan en una depurada historia de amor escrita con el sello de la madurez. La heroína, una joven sensible e impulsiva a quien su padre ha dotado de una exquisita educación musical, tiene la oportunidad de acompañar al piano a un famoso barítono, un hombre mucho mayor que ella y algo cansado de la vida, pero con el que establecerá una intensa relación que la lleva a renunciar al joven que ha sido su pretendiente desde la infancia.… (más)
 
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Natt90 | 16 reseñas más. | Jun 30, 2022 |
Una gran obra sobre la memoria, la voluntad de vivir y el derecho a la tierra, en este homenaje a la América de los pioneros. Aquellos inmigrantes escandinavos y centroeuropeos que llegaron a Nebraska a finlaes del siglo XIX, de los que la inolvidable Antonia forma parte. Su amistad con un niño anglosajón y los imborrables recuerdos que deja en él.
 
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Natt90 | 283 reseñas más. | Jun 29, 2022 |
Myra Driscoll renunció a la fortuna de su tío y a una comodidad de princesa para ser fiel a sus sentimientos y casarse con Oswald Henshawe. Pero la obra mostrará el haz y el envés de aquella valentía ideal. A través de la exquisita mirada de la joven Nellie asistimos a la rememoración de dos momentos clave para el retrato de Myra: la vida del matrimonio en Nueva York, llena de glamour y de amistades artísticas, y su final empobrecido en una ciudad junto al Pacífico.
 
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Natt90 | 22 reseñas más. | Jun 29, 2022 |
Quizá esta historia de fascinación sostenida y sueños traicionados, vista por un joven que se abre a la vida, nos dé la respuesta. Ma-rianne Forrester, esposa de un pionero del ferrocarril, anfitriona de la única casa elegante de la triste población de Sweet Water, siempre alegre en la riqueza y siempre resistente en la penuria, pasa de ser una gran señora a una mujer señalada por todas las habladurías. Un joven que la adora acaba despreciándola, y sobre su relación construye la autora un espléndido ejercicio sobre los entresijos de toda idealización.… (más)
 
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158
También por
108
Miembros
40,334
Popularidad
#438
Valoración
3.9
Reseñas
937
ISBNs
1,754
Idiomas
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Favorito
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