7th December 2009

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née today: Willa Cather
birth info: 7 December 1873 - 24 April 1947
via Library Thing
In an interview in the Omaha Daily Bee, October 29, 1921, the novelist recalled the shock of first knowing Nebraska:

“This country was mostly wild pasture and as naked as the back of your hand. I was little and homesick and lonely and my mother was homesick and nobody paid any attention to us. So the country and I had it out together and by the end of the first autumn, that shaggy grass country had gripped me with a passion I have never been able to shake. It has been the happiness and the curse of my life.”