The first novel in Willa Cather's acclaimed Great Plains Trilogy, published for the first time by Vintage Classics with beautiful jackets.
Willa Cather was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer, best
known for her novels of Nebraskan frontier life. Born in 1873 near
Winchester, Virginia, she moved with her family to Catherton,
Nebraska in 1883, and the landscape went on to have a formative
effect on her. Before becoming a full-time writer, Cather worked as
a journalist, a magazine editor and a teacher.
Her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, was published in 1912,
followed by titles including O Pioneers! (1913); The Song of the
Lark (1915); My ntonia (1918); One of Ours (1922), for which she
won the Pulitzer Prize; Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) and
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). She died in New York in 1947.
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