Cather, the Nebraska-born novelist, describes her childhood, her career as a writer, and the influences on her work
A Lost Lady brilliantly recaptures a specific chapter in American history and its evocation of loss and nostalgia remains recognizable to readers of every time and place.
Maxwell Geismar's view of Lewis as " a sort of Alice Toklas to Miss Cather's Stein " in his 1953 review of Willa Cather Living anticipated the sort of interest that would develop . To Elizabeth Sergeant , Cather had confessed her need ...
A first publication of the acclaimed writer's personal correspondences includes whimsical teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World ...
A Chance Meeting going away merely to escape the heat and to regard Mont Blanc from an advantageous point — not to become acquainted with the country . III My trip into the mountains was wholly successful . All the suggestions the old ...
It is widely considered Cather’s masterpiece, centers on a pair of French missionaries working among Hispanic, Navajo, and Pueblo people of the New Mexico desert. It is the story of Father Latour and Father Valilan.
Willa Cather and the Art of Conflict : Re - Visioning Her Creative Imagination . Troy NY : Whitston , 1992 . ... In The Kingdom of Art : Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements , 1893–1896 . Ed . Bernice Slote .
In this landmark of American fiction, Cather tells the story of young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they have struggled to farm.
Ed. Annie Fields. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. Kalbian, Maral S. Frederick County, Virginia: History through Architecture. Winchester, Va.: Winchester–Frederick County Historical Society, 1999. Kerns, Wilmer L. Frederick County, ...
This volume contains four great works (O Pioneers!
Thomas Vicniguerra, Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the “New Yorker” (New York: Norton, 2016), 45, 266; Tim Page, Introduction to The Happy Island, by Dawn Powell (South Royalton, ...