#cather — Public Fediverse posts

As a young child growing up in Virginia, Willa Cather heard her family telling and retelling a story about a young enslaved woman who made her way to Canada with the help of the slave owner’s abolitionist daughter. Sapphira and the Slave Girl was Cather’s final novel, published in 1940, and based and that story she overheard as a child.

Cather, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Our Own in 1923, passed away in 1947 at the age of 73.

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#December 7, 1873  
#OTD Willa #Cather, American #Writer, is born.
#Remembered for her novels of #Frontier life like #OPioneers!, Willa won a #Pulitzer for her #WWI novel called #OneOfOurs.
Here’s an excerpt from #MyAntonia:

The #Earth was warm under me, & warm as I crumbled it through my fingers.

I was something that lay under the #Sun & felt it, like the #Pumpkins, & I did not want to be anything more.

At any rate, that is #Happiness; to be dissolved into something complete & great.