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![]() ![]() ![]() There she joined McClure’s magazine, a popular muckraking periodical that encouraged the writing of new young authors.Īfter meeting the author Sarah Orne Jewett, she decided to quit journalism and devote herself full time to fiction. By the time she went to the University of Nebraska in 1891–where she began by wearing boy’s clothes and cut her hair close to her head–she had decided to be a writer.Īfter graduation she worked for a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper, then moved to Pittsburgh and finally to New York City. The oldest of seven children, she was educated at home, studied Latin with a neighbor, and read the English classics in the evening. Because she is so famous for her Nebraska novels, many people assume she was born there, but Willa Cather was about nine years old when her family moved to a small Nebraska frontier town called Red Cloud that was populated by immigrant Swedes, Bohemians, Germans, Poles, Czechs, and Russians. Willa Cather was probably born in Virginia in 1873, although her parents did not register the date, and it is probably incorrectly given on her tombstone. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour becomes the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico, and over the next forty years he faces the lawlessness and loneliness of the frontier as he tries to spread his faith. Willa Cather's best known novel a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. ![]()
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