She joined the Episcopalian Churc and demonstrated her growing distate for the modern values. Cather published little in her last years. She developed a close friendship with Yehudi Menuhin and his sisters. It is her only novel which was set in the Virginia of her grandmother. Cather died on April 24, 1947.
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
One of the most charming places in New York' wrote Willa Cather about Greenwich Village, where she lived like Tom Paine, James Fennimore Cooper, William Jennings Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, e.e. In the 1910s 'the house of genius' near Washington Square Park had as inhabitants Cather, Dreiser, O.Henry, and Crane. Willa Cather and Her Critics ed.