{"id":209284,"date":"2026-04-25T05:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209284\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:38:10","slug":"this-day-in-history-april-24-author-willa-cather-died-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209284\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History &#8211; April 24: Author Willa Cather died in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">April 24, 1947 &#8211; Author Willa Cather died at her home in New York City on April 24, 1947. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Born in Virginia in 1876, Cather and her family moved to the Red Cloud area when she was 8 years old. Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1895 and went on to teaching and newspaper work before turning to writing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cather wrote nearly a dozen novels, including \u201cOne of Ours,\u201d which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1011now.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our 10\/11 NOW daily digest and breaking news alerts delivered straight to your email inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KOLN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 24, 1947 &#8211; Author Willa Cather died at her home in New York City on April 24,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82933,58612,9,24,55,54,56,47912,59673,52819,82932],"class_list":["post-209284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-cather","tag-nebraska","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-this-day-in-history","tag-we-the-people","tag-will","tag-willa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}