Willa Cather

Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.

7 December 1873

Born on the same birth day (7 December): Allan B. Calhamer • C. Thomas Howell • Daniel Chorzempa • Eric Chavez • Garry Unger • Hermann Maier • J. B. Sumarlin • Jack Huston • Kazue Itō • Krsto Papić • Leigh Brackett • Louise Post • Luke Donald • Richard Warren Sears • Sara Bareilles • Stan Boardman • Theodor Schwann • Tony Yike Yang

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