Willa Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers , My Antonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. In this book: My Antonia, 1918 O Pioneers , 1913 Alexander's Bridge 1912 Song of the Lark, 1915 One of Ours, 1922 Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920 The Troll Garden and Selected Stories 1905"