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Scholars ponder why writer of Plains chose burial in East.

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From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Date: 20030712
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Byline: Stevenson Swanson

JAFFREY CENTER, N.H. _ If life were like fiction _ not very good fiction, that is _ the writer most closely identified with the settlers who broke the Nebraska prairie would have been buried among them.

But that would have been too obvious for Willa Cather, who was inspired by her experiences growing up in late 19th-century Nebraska to write such novels as "O, Pioneers!" and "One of Ours," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Instead she chose this secluded village in the shadow of Mt. Monadnock as her final resting place when she died in 1947.

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