The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire. Willa Cather

The author of My Ántonia was born on this day in 1873.

From Wikipedia: Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873^[1] – April 24, 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 Ántonia, 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. Cather grew up inNebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, then at the age of 33 she moved to New York, where she lived for the rest of her life.