For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Willa Cather, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the most prominent American writers of the early 20th century. She is best known for her novels “O Pioneers!” and “My Antonia.”

Cather is now widely understood to be a lesbian. She lived for 38 years in domestic partnership with Edith Lewis, a professional editor, in New York City. Lewis’s editorial skills probably contributed to Cather’s elegant prose style, as the two of them went over her novels together before publication. In 1922, she received a Pulitzer Prize for her novel “One of Ours.” Cather became known as one of the great writers, particularly for her depictions of rural American Life. and became the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Princeton.