Willa Sibert Cather

Bio

(1873-1947) Novelist, short-story writer. Willa Cather is considered one of the great American writers of the 20th century. She lived at 60 Washington Square, Greenwich Village, New York, New York, then 82 Washington Place, 5 Bank Street, and later at the Hotel Grosvenor. After some time working as a journalist and a teacher in Pittsburgh, she came to New York City in 1904, publishing a book of her short stories, “The Troll Garden” (1905), which gained her an appointment to the editorial staff of McClure’s Magazine. Ms. Cather wrote the novels “O Pioneers!” (1913), “My Ántonia” (1918), “The Song of the Lark” (1915), “Death Come for the Archbishop” (1927), and others. Ms. Cather moved from Washington Place to an address at 5 Bank Street where she did most of her writing, and which has since been torn down for the subway.