Willa Cather
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ranks as one of the major American novelists of the earlier twentieth century, and her popularity has remained undiminished while her critical reputation has fluctuated. She was a highly professional journalist and reviewer before she embarked on fiction, and she also published poetry, short stories, and ghosted biographies. Her fame rests on her rendering of the Midwest of pioneer days, but her strong imaginative sense of place also produced memorable novels with different geographical and historical settings.
- BirthName: Wilella Cather
- Self-constructed: Willa; Willa Love Cather; Willa Sibert CatherShe began in her late teens to include in her name that of the physician who had delivered her, Dr Love.She published between 1900 and 1920 under this name, which incorporates that of an uncle killed in the US Civil War,.