The Resume

(December 7, 1873-April 24, 1947)
Born in Winchester, Virginia
Wrote 'O Pioneers!' (1913), 'The Song of the Lark' (1915), 'My Antonia' (1918), 'One of Ours' (1922), 'A Lost Lady' (1923), 'My Mortal Enemy' (1926), 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' (1927), 'Shadows on the Rock' (1931) and 'Lucy Gayheart' (1935)

Why she might be annoying:

As a teen, she got a crew cut, wore men's clothing and referred to herself as 'William' Cather.
She wrote a biography of Mary Baker Eddy that outraged Christian Scientists so much that they tried to buy and destroy all the copies.
She destroyed many of her personal papers and letters, and used her last will to restrict scholars from quoting the papers that were left.
She shaved three years off her age and had 1876 listed as her birth year on her tombstone.

Why she might not be annoying:

She became a regular contributor to the Nebraska State Journal while in college.
She was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Princeton.
When Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he said that Cather was more deserving of the honor.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• About.com Top 100 Women of History [2009] (Ranked: 60)
• Born on Pearl Harbor Day [December 7th] (Ranked: 1873)
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 16]
• His and Hers
• I am an Episcopalian
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [A-C]
• I Attended University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• I Died in 1947 (Ranked: 73)
• I Write Bildungsroman
• Lesbians
• Look at Me, I Got My Arms Folded
• Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century [1998] (Ranked: 61)
• National Endowment for the Arts’ The Big Read Selections [Authors] (Ranked: 2007)
• National Women's Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1988)
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 56)
• Profiles 24251-24500 (Ranked: 24488)
• Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels [Authors]

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 28 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 25 Votes: 64.00% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 15 Votes: 40.0% Annoying