Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)

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Willa Cather was born in Virginia in 1873 and moved with her family to live in Webster County at the age of nine. After graduating from Red Cloud High School in 1890, she attended the university in Lincoln, Nebraska for five years, then moved to the east coast for the remainder of her life. She died in 1947 and was buried in New Hampshire. The years in Red Cloud were important and formative years in the writer's life. Six of her twelve novels are set in the Red Cloud and Webster County of her.. Continue..

Some of Willa Cather Poems

ARCADIAN WINTER

THE HAWTHORN TREE

LONDON ROSES

PARADOX

POPPIES ON LUDLOW CASTLE

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	Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

- Willa Cather

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