Jennifer Ebeling<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/December" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>December</span></a> 7, 1873  <br /><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> Willa <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Cather" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cather</span></a>, American <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Writer</span></a>, is born.<br /><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Remembered" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Remembered</span></a> for her novels of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Frontier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Frontier</span></a> life like <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OPioneers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OPioneers</span></a>!, Willa won a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Pulitzer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pulitzer</span></a> for her <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WWI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WWI</span></a> novel called <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OneOfOurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OneOfOurs</span></a>.<br />Here’s an excerpt from <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MyAntonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MyAntonia</span></a>:</p><p>The <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Earth</span></a> was warm under me, &amp; warm as I crumbled it through my fingers. </p><p>I was something that lay under the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sun</span></a> &amp; felt it, like the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Pumpkins" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pumpkins</span></a>, &amp; I did not want to be anything more. <br /> <br />At any rate, that is <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Happiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Happiness</span></a>; to be dissolved into something complete &amp; great.</p>