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1873 – 1947Willa Cather (1873-1947)Died 24 April 1947, aged 73Willa Cather was an American novelist known for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! and My Ántonia. She won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours in 1923. Death Comes for the Archbishop is among her best-known works.