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Willa Cather | Writer

old picture of Willa Sibert Cather

Lived Grand Manan, New Brunswick

Willa Sibert Cather was a writer who was awarded in 1923 the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.

  • Born in 1873 in Gore, Virginia, United States

  • Died in 1947 in Manhattan, New York, United States

Willa Cather established a reputation for giving breath to the landscape of her fiction. She achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains:

  • O Pioneers! (1913),
  • The Song of the Lark (1915),
  • My Ántonia (1918).

At the age of 33, she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also travelled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence in New Brunswick.

Beginning in 1922, Cather spent summers on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, where she bought a cottage in Whale Cove, on the Bay of Fundy and where her penultimate short story, “Before Breakfast,” is set. It was the only house she ever owned.

Willa Cather on Grand Manan. 1932, July.
ID DOL 606. The Willa Cather Archive. Phillip L. and Helen Cather Southwick Collection. Ed. Andrew Jewell. U of Nebraska-Lincoln. Web. 18 Feb. 2014

 

The Willa Cather Cottage, Grand Manan
  She is the only American woman writer included in the Encyclopedia Britannica’s list of “Great Books of the Western World” (1990).
Watch a documentary about Willa Cather

 

Grand Manan Island is the largest of the Fundy Islands in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick. Grand Manan is jurisdictionally part of Charlotte County. As of 2006, the island had a population of 2,460.

The Village of Grand Manan is a small island community located in the Bay of Fundy and is surrounded by several smaller islands.

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