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Willa Cather was born December 7, 1873, near Winchester, Virginia. When she was nine years old, her family moved to the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska, later the setting for a
number of her novels. She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After college, she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh. She moved to
New York City and worked for six years on the editorial staff of McClure's Magazine. The author of books about the settlement of the prairie, Midwestern life and the difficulty of change,
Cather is considered among the best of the nineteenth century American writers.
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