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Willa Cather: The Road Is All
In 1883, the young Willa Cather was plucked from her luxurious home in Virginia and dropped into the vast, tallgrass prairies of Nebraska, an experience that terrified, but exhilarated, her and became the force behind all of her great novels – "O Pioneers," "The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia," "Death Comes for the Archbishop" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "One of Ours." Her life remains mysterious – largely because she destroyed so much of her personal correspondence and insisted upon specific restrictions concerning her work – and seductive, largely because she ignored every cultural obstacle in her path. She was educated and well-traveled, she smoked and she talked tough, she did not suffer fools and she often dressed like a man. She has been a great inspiration to women writers and a great hero to women readers, rediscovered in every decade for the past 100 years.
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