Willa Cather 1873-1947
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- 1916
- During a visit to Red Cloud, Willa Cather decides to write a book based on the life of her childhood friend Anna Pavelka: My Antonia.
- 1917
- Willa Cather receives an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Nebraska. It is the first of many honorary degrees she will receive from universities across the nation.
- 1920
- During a trip to France, Willa Cather visits the grave of her cousin, G. P. Cather, whose letters home and death in World War I inspire her to begin the novel Claude, later renamed One of Ours (published 1922).
- 1922
- Despite an earlier Baptist background, Willa Cather and her family are confirmed at Grace Episcopal Church in Red Cloud.
- 1923
- Cather's A Lost Lady, based in part on the lives of Silas and Lyra Garber, is published serially in Century.
- 1925
- Cather builds a house for herself and Edith Lewis on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada. They will spend many summers there.
- 1928
- Willa Cather returns to Red Cloud, Nebraska, after her father dies. Her mother suffers a stroke.
- 1930
- Willa Cather wins the Howells Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Death Comes for the Archbishop.
- 1934
- Displeased by a new film version of A Lost Lady, Cather decides not to allow any more film adaptations of her works.
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