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Cather

American  
[kath-er, kath-] / ˈkæð ər, ˈkæθ- /

noun

  1. Willa (Sibert) 1876–1947, U.S. novelist.


Cather British  
/ ˈkæðə /

noun

  1. Willa ( Sibert ). 1873–1947, US novelist, whose works include O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918)

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For her, it was essential to keep the artwork itself unclouded by ideological notions, firmly in the crosshairs — this belief is at the heart of her monograph on “Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism.”

From Los Angeles Times

Cather was also struck by his younger sisters, writing to her nieces that the girls, Hephzibah and Yaltah, musicians too, were “almost as gifted and quite as handsome as he.”

From New York Times

The syllabus is much like what one might expect from an undergraduate English course, with texts by William Wordsworth, Willa Cather and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

From Seattle Times

White: Willa Cather is a good example, too.

From New York Times

Cather, whose works include “My Ántonia” and “O Pioneers,” spent her young years in Red Cloud, Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1895.

From Seattle Times