While he loves the land and his immigrant farmer neighbors, he does not get on well with his family.Ĭather explores Claude’s desire to escape his rural family whom he finds uncommunicative, as they view discussing one’s opinions as pompous, something only politicians do. He feels contradictorily towards his home life, “both loved and hated to come home” (70). Claude attends a Christian college but would rather attend the State University in Lincoln, as he finds his classes and professors dull. Claude lives more in his head than with his body, a temperament not conducive to a life of long days and hard work on a farm. Despite the Cather family having spent several generations in Virginia, Charles moved his family to the Nebraska frontier when Willa was nine years old.Willa Cather’s novel, One of Ours, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, tells the coming-of-age story of Claude Wheeler, the son of a wealthy farmer with an easy life and a head full of ideas living in Frankfort, Nebraska. The oldest of seven children, she was the daughter of Charles Cather and Mary Cather (née Boak). Willa Cather was born on the farm of her maternal grandmother, Rachel Boak, in the poor farming region of Back Creek Valley, Virginia, on December 7, 1873. Notable Quote: "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.".Awards and Honors: 1923 Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, 1944 Gold Medal for Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.Selected Works: My Ántonia (1918), O Pioneers! (1913), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), One of Ours (1922).Education: University of Nebraska–Lincoln.Died: Apin New York City, New York, USA.Born: Decemin Back Creek Valley, Virginia, USA.Known For: Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer whose novels captured the American pioneer experience.
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