Willa Cather (1873–1947)
Autor de Mi Antonia
Sobre El Autor
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
El canto de la alondra. Prólogo de José María Marco. Traducción de Eva Rodríguez Halffter. Novela. (1915) 2,013 copias
Early Novels and Stories: The Troll Garden / O Pioneers! / The Song of the Lark / My Antonia / One of Ours (1987) 534 copias
Later Novels: A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy… (1990) 480 copias
Set of 3 Book of the Month Club (Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Ántonia, O Pioneers!) (1996) 13 copias
Willa Cather: Four Great Novels—O Pioneers!, One of Ours, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia (2014) 11 copias
The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896 (1967) 9 copias
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather "The Annotated Classic Edition" Uniquely Epic American Novel (2020) 6 copias
Classic American Literature: 5 novels and 2 collections by Willa Cather, in a single file, improved 8/16/2010 (2008) 5 copias
My Ántonia: 100th Anniversary Edition with introduction, context, biography and analysis (2018) 5 copias
Death Comes for the Archbishop with Related Readings (The Glencoe Literature Library) (2002) 4 copias
The Best Years [short story] 3 copias
Willa Cather: Three Novel & Selected Stories (O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, Alexander's Bridge) (1993) 3 copias
Old Mrs. Harris 3 copias
Before Breakfast [short story] 2 copias
Willa Cather's Collected Works: My Ántonia, Song of the Lark, One of Ours, O Pioneers, The Profile, And More! (2013) 2 copias
Works of Willa Cather. Alexander's Bridge, O Pioneers!, Song of the Lark, My Antonia, One of Ours, Stories & more… (2009) 2 copias
Willa Cather Collection (My Ántonia, The Song of the Lark, O Pioneers!, and One of Ours) (2012) 2 copias
The Clemency of the Court 1 copia
Prarie Trilogy, The 1 copia
Two Friends 1 copia
Selected Short Stories 1 copia
The Essential Willa Cather: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, and One of Ours with an Introduction… (2017) 1 copia
Sin título 1 copia
The Troll Garden And Other Stories (Mint Editions (Short Story Collections and Anthologies)) (2020) 1 copia
Katherine Mansfield 1 copia
Willa Cather - The Library of America Set Complete in 3 Volumes (1. Early Novels & Stories; 2. Stories, Poems and Other… (1987) 1 copia
Consequences 1 copia
Joseph and His Brothers 1 copia
Works of Willa Cather (8 Works) 1 copia
Miss Jewett 1 copia
148 Charles Street 1 copia
The Novel Démeublé 1 copia
Cather, Willa Archive 1 copia
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The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (1985) — Contribuidor — 861 copias
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contribuidor — 448 copias
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contribuidor — 265 copias
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contribuidor — 204 copias
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Contribuidor — 197 copias
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 (1998) — Contribuidor — 171 copias
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 134 copias
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 93 copias
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 83 copias
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contribuidor — 47 copias
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contribuidor — 42 copias
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 2: Love, Marriage, and the Family (1966) — Contribuidor — 39 copias
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contribuidor — 37 copias
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Contribuidor — 30 copias
Three Classics by American Women: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers! (1990) — algunas ediciones — 25 copias
Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (Perennial library ; P 502) (1980) — Contribuidor — 25 copias
Best-Loved Short Stories: Flaubert, Chekhov, Kipling, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Poe and Others (2004) — Contribuidor — 23 copias
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Pulitzer Prize Winning Works Collection: One of Ours, His Family, Miss Lulu Bett, Cornhuskers, Anna Christie, Alice… (2013) 4 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1929 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1929) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
A Modern Galaxy: Short Stories — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War (2014) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
La nueva mujer: Relatos de escritoras estadounidenses del siglo XIX — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The Song of the Lark [2001 TV movie] — Original book — 1 copia
Avon Modern Short Story Monthly No. 7 (14 Great stories by 14 Great Authors) (1943) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Trumps: A Collection of Short Stories — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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 por Willa Cather
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)
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.
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.
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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