One Of Ours

A novel about a Nebraska farmboy whose restless spirit leads him to the battlefields of France during World War I.

Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her novels; O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. In 1906 Cather became the managing editor of McClure's magazine. As a muckraker journalist Cather co-authored a scathing biography of the head of the Christian Science church, Mary Baker, Eddy. In One of Ours is a Pulitzer Prize winner. After a year at the state university, a young man unsuccessfully tries to bring culture to his Nebraska town in turn-of-the-century novel. Bound to both the soil and a religion he feels is shallow, he finds World War I an escape.