“The time will come when she will be ranked above Hemingway.” —Leon Edel In The Song of the Lark, Cather’s most autobiographical work, Thea Kronborg emerges as the heroine of her own life. Against formidable familial and social pressures, Kronborg, a minister’s daughter from a small Colorado town, makes her way onto a world stage as she fully possesses—and shares—her musical gifts. In choosing her art, she must constantly set aside the pull of home as well as romantic interests to pursue opportunities in Chicago, New York, and Germany. All the while her hometown and its people remain the lodestone and wellspring of her emotional life. In this moving portrait of an artist charting her own path, Cather created one of her most powerful female characters. This Warbler Classics edition is based on the original 1915 edition and includes an extensive biographical timeline. Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia, and for One of Ours, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944. By the time of her death she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry. “Cather [belongs to] a small class of American novelists who are seriously to be reckoned with.” —H. L. Mencken “A genuine and powerful story.” — New York Evening Post "The time will come when she will be ranked above Hemingway." --Leon Edel "Cather [belongs to] a small class of American novelists who are seriously to be reckoned with." -H. L. Mencken "A genuine and powerful story." - New York Evening Post Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944. By the time of her death in 1947 she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry.