Willa Cather

Willa Sibert Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer, best known as a novelist of the American plains: O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927). She grew up in Nebraska and was a magazine editor in New York before turning to fiction.

Her only book of poems, April Twilight (1903), preceded her novels; Rittenhouse printed one poem from it.