Willa Cather's Birthday

Today in 1973, Willa Cather was born. Best known for her works, O Pioneers and My Antonia, she won a Pulitzer Prize and Sinclair Lewis paid tribute to her when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, by saying that she should have won instead. She went against the grain of society, wearing men’s clothes and a short hairstyle and often going by the nickname “William.”