Willa Cather is best known by her novels -- My Antonia (required reading for us in high school, and we still aren't sure how we feel about that) and the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, One of Ours. What few people know is that she began her career writing short stories -- in fact, these very stories. Included in this volume are the highly acclaimed Troll Garden stories -- involving individuals and the art world of the time. The most important of these stories is "Paul's Case." Cather's also well known for writing stories set, like "On the Divide," in rural Nebraska.

Author Biography

Willa Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Antonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Virginia and Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.