The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works

Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) is one of the foremost American writers of the twentieth century. Born in Virginia, she moved at age nine with her family to the Nebraska prairie, where she met the people and experienced the settings that she drew upon for her celebrated "Prairie Trilogy": O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). Cather's career flourished in the 1920s and 1930s and includes among its highlights The Professor's House (1925), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), and Shadows on the Rock (1931).