Willa Cather

1873–1947 · American novelist & Pulitzer winner

Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer celebrated for her novels of frontier and immigrant life on the Great Plains, among them O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia. She won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours. She held this passage close enough that a fragment of it is carved on her gravestone in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

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“That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great”

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