Willa Siebert Cather was born in the home of her maternal grandmother in 1873 in the bluegrass region of western Virginia (Robinson 6). Cather’s name was originally Willela (after her father’s younger sister who died in childhood), but the family always called her “Willie”. They did this because as a child Willa altered her name in the family Bible and insisted that she was named after her uncle William Sibert Boak (Woodress 23). In the spring …showed first 75 words of 1369 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1369 total…devote all her time to writing and in 1912 her first novel, Alexander Bridge, was published (Daichess 8). From the point on, Willa Cather Became a great American novelist. Willa Cather finally came to her end in 1947 at the age of 70. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Daiches, David. Willa Cather a Critical Introduction. Westport, Ct. : Greenwood Press, 1915. Robinson, Phyllis C. Willa: The Life of Willa Cather. New York: Doubleday, 1983. Woodress, James. Willa Cather Her Life and Art. New York: Pegasus, 1970.