What is Willa Cather?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Willa Cather | image = Willa Cather ca. 1912 wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett (cropped).jpg | caption = Cather in 1912 | pseudonym = | birth_name = Wilella Sibert Cather | birth_date = {{birth date|1873|12|7}} | birth_place = [[Gore, Virginia]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1947|4|24|1873|12|7}} | death_place = [[Manhattan]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. | resting_place = Old Burying Ground, [[Jaffrey, New Hampshire]], U.S. | occupation = Novelist | period = 1905–1947 | partner = [[Edith Lewis]] ({{circa}} 1908–1947) | genre = | subject = | movement = | influences = | influenced = | signature = Cather signature.jpg }} '''Willa Sibert Cather''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|æ|ð|ər}};<ref>{{cite web |title=willa-cather – Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes {{!}} Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com |url=https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/willa-cather |website=oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com}}</ref> born '''Wilella Sibert Cather'''; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer. She was known for her novels of life on the [[Great Plains]]. Her best known works were ''[[O Pioneers!]]'', ''[[The Song of the Lark]]'', and ''[[My Ántonia]]''. In 1923, she was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for ''[[One of Ours]]''. ==Personal life== Many people believed Cather was a [[lesbian]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cather |first1=Willa |editor1-last=Sharistanian |editor1-first=Janet |title=My Antonia |url=https://archive.org/details/myantonia0000cath_v0l6 |year=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19953-814-0 |page=xiii |edition=New}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Acocella |first1=Joan |title=What's in Cather's Letters |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/whats-in-cathers-letters |magazine=The New Yorker |date