* 1947 – Willa Cather, American writer ( b. 1873 )

* The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science by Willa Cather and Georgine Milmine ( 1909 ) began as a famous Muckraking magazine series 1907 – 08.

* Willa Cather publishes Alexander's Bridge, O Pioneers !, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia

* December 7 – Willa Siebert Cather, American novelist ( d. 1947 )

* Willa Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadows on the Rock, My Antonia

" Thoreau also influenced many artists and authors including Edward Abbey, Willa Cather, Marcel Proust, William Butler Yeats, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, E. B.

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* 1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather

Wilder had a wide circle of friends and enjoyed mingling with other famous people, including Ernest Hemingway, Russel Wright, Willa Cather, and Montgomery Clift.

* Willa Cather short story " The Affair at Grover Station " about Sterling, Colorado

The author Willa Cather lived in Red Cloud for several years with her family, starting in 1884 at age nine.

Several 19th-century buildings described in her books are included in the Willa Cather Historic District, the largest district dedicated to an author that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

** Willa Cather House

It became a leading market for fiction, featuring such authors as Annie Besant, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton.

In her 1915 novel, The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather referred to the insanity of the wife of a main character as having been caused by general paresis but there is no hint that the character had contracted syphilis.

* Willa Cather — O Pioneers!

* Willa Cather – Alexander's Bridge

American author Willa Cather noted its presence in the personal library of one of her characters in the short story, Double Birthday, noting that it had lost its " power to seduce and stimulate ..."

One group of scholars, following the lead of novelists Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder argue the rural environment was salubrious.

He is buried in the local cemetery, together with bandbox craftswoman Hannah Davis, and author and summer resident Willa Cather.

Willa Cather left New York City for the isolated village in 1911, writing O Pioneers!

One group of scholars, following the lead of novelists Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder argue the rural environment was salubrious.

Those books included a novel by Willa Cather.

The University's English Department has one of the world's top programs in the digital humanities, with renowned digital archiving projects such as the Walt Whitman Archive and the Willa Cather Archive.

This musical version of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty depicts Mitty at age 40, tempted by " would-be chanteuse " Willa De Wisp to leave his wife Agnes and really live " the Secret Life ".

Her books include The Novels of Virginia Woolf ( 1977 ); a study of the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen ( 1981, revised 1999 ); a short critical book, the first published in Britain, on Philip Roth ( 1982 ); a critical biography of the American novelist Willa Cather, Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up ( 1989, reissued in a revised edition by Virago in 2008 ); and a major biography of Virginia Woolf ( 1996 ), which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and was named as one of the New York Times Book Reviews best books of 1997.

The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy, published in 1952, is often quoted as the earliest example, although in Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents, Elaine Showalter discusses C. P. Snow's The Masters, of the previous year, and several earlier novels have an academic setting and the same characteristics, such as Willa Cather's The Professor's House of 1925, Régis Messac's Smith Conundrum first published between 1928 and 1931 and Dorothy L. Sayers ' Gaudy Night of 1935 ( see below ).

Baker with his daughter Willa at the Spider-Man 3 premiere, April 2007.

He was the youngest of five children, after siblings Edgar, Frank, Matthew ( nicknamed " Mack "), and Willa Mae.

The film version of Blume ’ s 1981 novel Tiger Eyes, directed by the author's son Lawrence Blume, stars Willa Holland as Davey and Amy Jo Johnson as Gwen Wexler.

In Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop ( 1927 ), the legend of Kit Carson is explored, first as compassionate friend to the natives, later as " misguided " soldier.

* Badìa Fiorentina, an abbey in Florence, Italy, is founded by Willa, Margravine of Tuscany.

In Willa Cather's O Pioneers !, two of the story's lovers are killed under a Mulberry Tree.

Wilma, Willa, Willy, and Mina are short forms of the name, and male versions include William and Wilhelm.

Major city facilities include the City Hall and Police Station at 700 Broad Street ; the Department of Public Services at 1160 Broad Street ; the Fire Department at 915 Broad Street ; the Maud Preston Palenske Public Library at 500 Market Street ; the John and Dede Howard Ice Arena at 2414 Willa Drive ; the Water Treatment Plant at 1701 Lions Park Drive ; and Riverview Cemetery at 2525 Niles Road.

* Long Pine is mentioned in Willa Cather's 1911 short story The Joy of Nelly Deane.

* Willa Cather's 1897 short story A Resurrection is set in Brownville, and it includes a description of the town.

Acomita is mentioned in Willa Cather's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book Three Chapter 1.

Acoma is mentioned in Willa Cather's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book Three Chapter 4.

Acoma is mentioned in Willa Cather's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book Three Chapter 4.

Tesuque is mentioned in Willa Cather's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book Nine Chapter 1.