What's Cather's life like?

Kaiser, 1873 was born in Virginia, USA, and moved to Nebraska in the midwest with his parents since childhood. 1895 graduated from the university of Nebraska and worked as a middle school teacher, journalist and editor of Mai Kr magazine. 19 12 began to specialize in writing. Her early works were influenced by Henry James. Later, following the advice of Sarah Ona Jowett, a woman writer, she created works with local characteristics according to her life in the western frontier, which she was familiar with since childhood.

Two novels, O Pioneers (19 13) and My antonia (19 18), describe the hard life of the first generation of immigrants in eastern Europe and northern Europe who fought against nature, and their handling of interpersonal relationships in the conflict between old and new cultures. The heroine's perseverance and strong personality left a deep impression on people.

"A Sinking Woman" (1923) wrote that the wife of an industrialist who developed the western region was lured by speculators and went into depravity. "The Professor's Residence" (1925) describes a history professor who hates his family who worships money and forms an unforgettable friendship with Tom autran, a young scholar who was born in poverty. These two works reflect the author's rejection of the pursuit of material enjoyment and money worship popular in the United States at that time. When the latter wrote about how autran discovered the ancient cultural relics of Indians, the scenery was very vivid. On the one hand, it revealed the author's appreciation of the cliff culture of ancient Indians, which was integrated with nature, on the other hand, it also expressed her contempt for modern material civilization.

Cather's later works further explore the spiritual beauty she yearns for from the history of North America. In Death Comes to the Archbishop (1927), she praised the dedication of Catholic priests who preached to Indians in New Mexico in the 9th century. Shafila and Slaves (1940) describes how a white woman in Virginia helped a slave escape to Canada before the Civil War and gained her freedom. Cather wrote this based on her grandmother's deeds.

Maxwell Geismar, an American critic, pointed out that Cather was an "agricultural writer in an industrial society" and a "defender of spiritual beauty in a civilization with constant materialistic desires". She advocates writing "novels without furniture" and opposes the detailed description of overlapping bedsteads. Her works are symmetrical in structure, slow and leisurely in rhythm, and fresh and beautiful in words. In recent years, American critics believe that she is one of the most outstanding American novelists in the 20th century.

Cather died in America on 1947.