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...Author. Willa (Sibert) Cather was born December 7, 1876. Virginian by birth she is Middle-Western by adoption and bringing-up. She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, was once employed on the Pittsburgh Daily Leader and later became associate editor of McClure's Magazine. For some years she has devoted herself entirely to writing, and is at present living in France. Her works include Alexander's Bridge, 0 Pioneers, My Antonia (her best work till the appearance of A Lost Lady), The Song of the Lark, One of Ours (Pulitzer Prize-winner...
...efficiency and blazing lights have not penetrated. In the Union library there are good books, staunch old friends that have proved their worth before generations; there are comfortable chairs into which one may sink deep in luxury, thoughtless of decorum; here one can cram the briar full of fragrant Virginian, light it with freedom and lie back in blissful serenity and ease...
...book on which his fame chiefly rests is "The Virginian," a novel of western cowboy life published in 1902. Among his other works the best known are "Lin McLean," "Lady Baltimore," and "Philosophy 4," a short story of Harvard life...
...Harvard Law School in 1888, and a year later was admitted to the bar. He has travelled extensively throughout the United States, and written many well-known books, among them: "The Dragon of Wantley," "Red Men and White," "LinMcLean," "The Jimmy John Boss," "Ulysses S. Grant: a Biography," "The Virginian," "Philosophy 4," "A Journey in Search of Christmas," "Lady Baltimore," "Mother," and "The Seven Ages of Washington...
...light burning until morning if he wished. Mr. Smith notes the awe with which the master of Mount Vernon impressed him, but Mr. Wister explains that this was the inevitable result of long preoccupation in official affairs. It is greatly to be desired that the author of "The Virginian" might give us a portrayal of the characters of Franklin and Lincoln as true to life as is this one of Washington. EDWARD CHANNING...