Willa Cather

Willa Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including The Song of the Lark and My Antonia, as well as O Pioneers. She moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, at the age of nine, and later settled in New York City after working in Pittsburgh as an editor and teacher. In 1923 she won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. My Mortal Enemy is a short, late novel about a marriage.