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Willa Cather

1873 - 1947

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Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old. The family later settled in the town of Red Cloud. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willa Cather has received more than 2,018,907 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Willa Cather is the 3,278th most popular writer (down from 3,224th in 2019), the 4,161st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,246th in 2019) and the 351st most popular American Writer.

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  • 45

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  • 5.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Willa Cather ranks 3,278 out of 7,302. Before her are Julius Obsequens, Curt von Bardeleben, John Brunner, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, Duarte Barbosa, and Mariano Azuela. After her are Joanna Chmielewska, Wallace Stevens, Mahmoud Shabestari, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Licinius Macer Calvus, and Juan Fernández de Heredia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Willa Cather ranks 102. Before her are Gustaf John Ramstedt, Michele Besso, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Leo Baeck, Ford Madox Ford, and Mariano Azuela. After her are Nikolai Tcherepnin, E. D. Morel, Leo Fall, Barnum Brown, Henri Rabaud, and Rudolf Charousek. Among people deceased in 1947, Willa Cather ranks 120. Before her are Tristan Bernard, Elias Katz, Georg Kolbe, Stepan Petrichenko, Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Gyula Károlyi. After her are Maxwell Perkins, Marc Mitscher, Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena, Rosalia Zemlyachka, Giuseppe Volpi, and Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Willa Cather ranks 4,161 out of 20,380. Before her are William Larned (1872), Frank Carlucci (1930), Eddie Bracken (1915), Albert George Wilson (1918), Jane Toppan (1854), and Lawrence Kasdan (1949). After her are Charles Francis Hall (1821), John D. Rockefeller III (1906), Horace Greeley (1811), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), Ansel Adams (1902), and Belle Starr (1848).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Willa Cather ranks 351. Before her are Jim Carroll (1949), Peter Benchley (1940), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Mickey Spillane (1918), Edward Bellamy (1850), and Gregory Benford (1941). After her are Wallace Stevens (1879), Douglas Preston (1956), Robert McKee (1941), Morgan Robertson (1861), Rose Wilder Lane (1886), and Fanny Crosby (1820).

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