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Also Known As	Willa Sibert Cather
Born	December 7, 1873 • Winchester • Virginia
Died	April 24, 1947 (aged 73) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works	“A Lost Lady” • “Alexander’s Bridge” • “Death Comes for the Archbishop” • “Lucy Gayheart” • “My Ántonia” • “Not Under Forty” • “O Pioneers!” • “Obscure Destinies” • “One of Ours” • “Paul’s Case” • “Sapphira and the Slave Girl” • “Shadows on the Rock” • “Song of the Lark” • “The Professor’s House” • “The Selected Letters of Willa Cather” • “The Troll Garden” • “Youth and the Bright Medusa”