![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Willa Sibert Cather 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 Ántonia (1918). It is the final book of her “prairie trilogy” of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. “My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. You may recognize or even may have read some of these titles yourself but maybe these recommendations will spark a drive to checkout some of these classics and get a taste of the age. Today we are peeling back the pages of history to give you a taste of the literary scene of one hundred years ago. (All the book links below lead to Amazon if you click on one and buy things from Amazon, CMLE may receive a small percentage of Amazon’s profits. You can explore the books on your own, or use them as a foundation for building a display in your library! You can use this flyer: 100 years of great books_ popular books from 1918 or create your own! Each week we look at a collection of a few books on a topic. ![]()
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