"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman"- O Pioneers!
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author recognized for her novels of frontier life. Some of her most notable works are Old Jules, My Ántonia, O Pioneers!, and One of Ours, which earned Cather her Pulitzer.
Cather lived in Red Cloud, Nebraska. She was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1962.