Which novel by Willa Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1923?

Which novel by Willa Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1923? The answer is One of Ours.

Published in 1922, One of Ours follows Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska farmer's son who feels trapped by an outwardly comfortable life. When the United States enters World War I, Claude enlists in the Army and travels to France, where military service gives him a sense of purpose that he could not find at home.

Cather drew partly on the life and letters of her cousin Grosvenor P. Cather, who was killed in action at the Battle of Cantigny in 1918. She also researched veterans' experiences and visited French battlefields. The novel's Nebraska sections reflect Cather's familiarity with the Great Plains, while its wartime passages broaden her subject to American idealism and the realities of combat.

The award was officially called the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1923; the category was renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948. Readers sometimes choose My Ántonia or O Pioneers! because those are among Cather's best-known Plains novels, but neither won this Pulitzer.