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Willa Cather's Birthday
Willa Cather's birthday is December 7th. Although famous for writing about the Midwest, especially Nebraska, Cather spent much of her life and career in New York City's Greenwich Village. She took up residence at several locations in the Village including 60 Washington Square, 82 Washington Place, 5 Bank Street, and the Hotel Grosvenor.
Celebrate her birthday by reading one of her books!
Some Cather quotations:
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
And, the opening sentence from O Pioneers!:
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
View Willa Cather in the Village in a larger map
Explore more maps and archival materials available in the Willa Cather Archive, available online from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Happy Birthday Willa!
Submitted by Mary Lynne McDermott (not verified) on December 7, 2011 - 7:51am