Willa Cather was born in December of 1873. She moved to Nebraska in 1883 with her family. She graduated from Red Cloud
Highschool in 1890. She wrote a biography for Mary Bake Eddy for the McClure's magazine in 1907. She had many jobs in her
life ranging from a journalist, to a teacher, to the editor of McClure's magazine. She won the Pulitzer prize in 1923 for
"One of Ours". She was most popular for writting works about ordinary people. She wrote a total of 13 works, 12
of which being novels and the other a nonfiction work. Willa Cather died April 24, 1947.
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