O Pioneers! Willa Cather

by Willa Cather

Overview

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather is a novel about a family of Swedish immigrants in a farming community in Nebraska. The story explores the attempts of Alexandra Bergson to make her family farm successful along with romantic relationships that develop on the prairie. O Pioneers! is the first book of Cather’s prairie trilogy which includes My Antonia and The Song of the Lark.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151427449
Publisher:	Seedbox Press, LLC
Publication date:	03/31/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	201 KB

About the Author

Willa Cather (1873-1948) is best known for her books O Pioneers! and My Antonia. She was born in Virginia and moved with her family to Nebraska before she was ten. This move later provided the setting for her best-known novels which focus on immigrant life on the prairie. As the Pulitzer Prize-winner for One of Ours, novelist, and writer of short fiction and poetry, Cather is known as a major American author.

Date of Birth:

December 7, 1873

Date of Death:

April 27, 1947

Place of Birth:

Winchester, Virginia

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., University of Nebraska, 1895