‎The Song of the Lark, ‎Willa Cather, with introduction by Sharon O'Brien‬, New York‬: ‎A Signet Classic‬, ‎1991, 457p. Thea Kronborg grows up, learning herself, her strengths and her talent, until she reaches success. Her story is told against the backdrop of the burgeoning American West in which she was born in a town along the rail line, of fast-growing Chicago near the turn of the twentieth century, and of the audience for singers of her skills in the US compared to Europe.

The book tells the story of a talented artist born in a small town in Colorado who discovers and develops her singing voice. The Song of the Lark is a novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915.

The Song of the Lark (Great Plains Trilogy #2), Willa Cather She died of a cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 73 in New York City. In 1944, Cather received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943. In later life, she experienced much negative criticism for her conservative politics and became reclusive, burning some of her letters and personal papers, including her last manuscript. She travelled widely and often spent summers in New Brunswick, Canada. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, 'One of Ours' (1922), set during World War I. Her novels on frontier life brought her to national recognition. Because of this, she changed her major and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English.Īfter graduation in 1894, she worked in Pittsburgh as writer for various publications and as a school teacher for approximately 13 years, thereafter moving to New York City for the remainder of her life. She then attended the University of Nebraska, initially planning to become a physician, but after writing an article for the Nebraska State Journal, she became a regular contributor to this journal. Wilella Sibert Cather was born in Back Creek Valley (Gore), Virginia, in December 7, 1873.

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather