pWilla Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My ntonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. In 2023, a statue of Willa Cather was placed in Statuary Hall in the US Capitol, one of the statues from the State of Nebraska.ppbrppCather achieved recognition as a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience. She wrote of the spirit of those settlers moving into the western states, many of them European immigrants in the nineteenth century. Common themes in her work include nostalgia and exile. A sense of place is an essential element in Cather's fiction physical landscapes and domestic spaces are for Cather's dynamic presence, against which her characters struggle to find community.ppbrppWilla Cather's novel One of Ours, published in 1922, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Novel in 1923. It follows the life of Claude Wheeler, who was born in