Interesting facts about willa cather

A Brief Biographical Sketch

by Amy Ahearn

Born in Back Creek, Virginia on December 7, 1873, Willa Cather moved with her family to Catherton, Nebraska in 1883. The following year the family relocated to nearby Red Cloud, the same town that has been made famous by her writing.

The nine-year-old had trouble adjusting to her new life on the prairie: the all-encompassing land surrounded her, making her feel an "erasure of personality." After a year, Cather had developed a fierce passion for the land, something that would remain at the core of her writing.

By 1890, immigrants in Nebraska made up forty-three percent of the state population. Cather found herself surrounded by foreign languages and customs.

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Drawn together in their homesickness, Cather felt a certain kinship to the immigrant women of the Plains. [1] It was to this land and these people that her mind returned when she began writing novels.

Cather attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, graduating in 1895.