Cather followed "Alexander's Bridge" with her three novels set on the prairies of the Great Plains, which eventually became both popular and critical successes: "O Pioneers!" (1913), "The Song of the Lark" (1915), and "My Ántonia" (1918), which are—taken together—sometimes referred to as her "Prairie Trilogy". It is this succession of plains-based novels for which Cather was celebrated for her use of plainspoken language about ordinary people. Sinclair Lewis, for example, praised her work for making Nebraska available to the wider world for the first time. After writing "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald lamented that it was a failure in comparison to "My Ántonia".