Willa Cather Quotes


Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.


Citations

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin, 1915, p. 432.

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Willa Cather
Willa Cather
  • Born: December 7, 1873
  • Died: April 24, 1947
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist

Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.