“He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one feel an obligation to do one's best.”

American writer

Willa Cather was an American writer known for her novels about life on the Great Plains. Born Willa Sibert Cather, she is especially associated with works such as O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. Her fiction often turns to the people, landscapes, and endurance of the American frontier. In 1923, she won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.