December 7, 1873 - Author Willa Cather was born in Virginia on Dec. 7, 1873.

In 1883, Cather’s family moved to Webster County, Nebraska and settled in Red Cloud in 1884. Cather attended school at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she wrote short stories and studied the classics.

In 1903, Cather produced a collection of poems, and her first novel was serialized in a magazine in 1912. Cather died in 1947 at the age of 73.

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