After graduating from the University of Nebraska, she worked for a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper, then moved to Pittsburgh and finally to New York City. Here she finds the courage to seize her future and to use her gifts to catch 'the shining, elusive element that is life itself-life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.' In prose as shimmering and piercingly true as the light in a desert canyon, Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her deepest self. First novel in Willa Cather's Great Plains trilogy is a crossword puzzle clue that we have spotted 1 time. WILLA CATHER was born in Virginia in 1873, and was about nine years old when her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. It is in the solitude of a tiny rock chamber high in the side of an Arizona cliff-'a cleft in the heart of the world'-that Thea comes face to face with her own dreams and desires, stripped clean by the haunting purity of the ruined cliff dwellings and inspired by the whisperings of their ancient dust.

But as her path to the world stage leads her ever farther from the humble town she can't forget and from the man she can't afford to love, Thea learns that her exceptional musical talent and fierce ambition are not enough. Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world. Swedish immigrants, the Bergson's, work a farm near Hanover, Nebraska. You can easily improve your search by specifying the number of letters in the answer. Below are all possible answers to this clue ordered by its rank. We think the likely answer to this clue is OPIONEERS.

In this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines. Willa Cather's novel, O Pioneers is a poetic look at the realities and struggles of these early pioneers - specifically the often unsung, over-looked women who fought and toiled in the country. The crossword clue First novel in Cathers 'Great Plains' trilogy with 9 letters was last seen on the December 11, 2022. 'The time will come when she will be ranked above Hemingway.' -Leon Edel

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