pWilla Sibert Cather December 7, 1873- April 24, 1947 was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers , My ntonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours 1922, a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, then at age 33 she moved to New York where she lived for the rest of her life. ppYouth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories is by Willa Cather, published in 1920. Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden.ppThe collection contains the following stories ppComing, Aphrodite br The Diamond Minebr A Gold Slipperbr Scandalbr Paul's Casebr A Wagner Matineebr The Sculptor's Funeralbr A Death in the Desertbr wikipedia.orgbr p