Willa Cather published a collection of short stories called The Troll Garden. The stories share a common theme in that they feature characters who desire for the world of beauty and imagination but are continuously attacked by the obscene and vicious outer world. In the short tale "The Sculptor's Funeral," the townspeople of a prairie village are shown in their reactions when a well-known sculptor's body is brought back to be buried there. Today "Paul's Case," the book's concluding story, is regarded as a national classic in America. While some stories are amazing and fantastic others can create panic and trill among the readers. Willa Cather attempts to compile many of his classic thoughts in a single draft and offered at an affordable price so that everyone can read them. The book leaves the readers with an overwhelming sea of emotions.
Willa Sibert Cather was a famous American writer known for her substantial novels. She was born in 1873 in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia. Her father’s name was Charles Fectigue Cather and belonged from Wales. Her mother’s name was Mary Virginia Boak, and she was a former school teacher. When Cather was twelve months old, her parents moved to Willow Shade, a Greek Revival-style home given to them by her paternal grandparents. Willa Cather has six siblings namely Roscoe, Douglass, Jessica, James, John, and Elsie. She was close to her brothers compared to her sisters. She graduated from Red Cloud High School in 1890. To enroll at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, she later moved to Lincoln. In 1896, she moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a writer in a women’s magazine, Home Monthly. A year later, she became a telegraph editor and critic for the Pittsburgh Leader and frequently contributed poetry and short fiction to The Library. She also started teaching Latin, algebra, and English in Pittsburgh for a year. During World War I in 1923, she got a Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours.
