num_pages: 625
description: James Woodress goes beyond previous biographers in drawing on some fifteen hundred letters, interviews, speeches, and reminiscences. He separates much fact from fiction and takes into account the ever-growing body of Cather criticism. The author of My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop was in love with here are her passions, prejudices, and quirks of personality. Thoroughly grounded in Cather's writings, which were autobiographical to an uncommon degree, Willa A Literary Life is likely to stand as the definitive biography of her for years to come.
language: English
title: Willa Cather: A Literary Life
titlecomplete: Willa Cather: A Literary Life
genres: History, American History, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 36
publisher: University of Nebraska Press