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In 2023, a statue of Willa Cather was placed in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall. Cather was an American novelist and short story writer who is best known for her novels about the Great Plains. She was born in 1873 in Virginia and died in 1947 in New York City. Cather's work has been praised for its realism, its lyricism, and its exploration of themes of gender, class, and identity.