Obscure Destinies Is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932. Willa Sibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, works such as O Pioneers , My Antonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.