Willa Cather: Your new favorite romance novelist?
The author of the frontier was a romantic with a capital ‘R.’
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New biography of Willa Cather is a thoughtful primer on her work
A new biography pays tribute to Cather’s luminous work, glossing over its more contemporary controversies.
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In critic Margo Jefferson's memoir, a life is refracted through art
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
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Cather, Willa (1873–1947) – Encyclopedia Virginia
O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918), two novels about Nebraska, where she attended school and spent much of her childhood. Her re-creation of what is now the Midwest is rooted in her own family’s experience moving west from the Shenandoah Valley in 1883, and her writing is preoccupied with the larger American experiment of uprooting and then re-establishing civilization. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her novel One of Ours, about a Nebraska farmer’s son, but her settings ...
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