Nebraska example essay topic

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Willa Cather born in December of 1873 in Black Creek Valley in Virginia At the age of 9 moved to Nebraska frontier to join grandparents got her schooling in Nebraska and she attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln began her writing career during college writing short stories and poetry for the Nebraska State Journal and the Lincoln Courier After graduating from Nebraska in 1895 she worked as a teacher and journalist in Pittsburgh She wrote a collection of short stories called The Troll Garden in 1905 which had A Wagner Matinee published in it This led to her getting a job editing and writing for Mc Clure's Magazine in New York City, and she helped the magazine from going under In 1912 she resigned from Mc Clure's Magazine to pursue writing short stories and fiction in the quiet Greenwich village in New York Much of her writing is reflected back to her life living in Nebraska, her settings and values of the stories come from this region She believed that your writing must come from experiences before adolescence Many themes of her stories were shown in the strength and courage of frontier settlers and wrote about the need for artists not to be set back by inhibiting influences, which is one of the main themes in A Wagner Matinee Like other writers of her time, she wrote about disillusionment and she was skeptic toward machines and advances in technology she loved music, which is reflected in this story with the German composer, Richard, Wagner She won a pulitzer prize in 1923 for One of Ours, and she is known as one of the great writers of the twentieth century

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