Cather

[kath-er, kath-]

noun

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

Cather

/ ˈkæðə /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.”

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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.”

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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.

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White: Willa Cather is a good example, too.

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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.

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