It is the birthday of writer Willa Cather (1873), who may be best known for her Prairie Trilogy —
O Pioneers (1912),
The Song of the Lark (1915), and
My Antonia (1918), her stories of ordinary people of the Midwestern plains. Critics such as H.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis praised them, and readers loved them. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1923 for
One of Ours (1922), the tale of a young man from a Midwestern farm who seeks purpose on the battlefield in France during World War I. Ernest Hemingway wasn't impressed with
One of Ours. He snipped that the battle scenes clearly came from D.W. Griffith's 1915 silent epic
Birth of a Nation.
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