Title: Willa Cather
First published: 2000
Description: "Previous biographies of Willa Cather have either recycled the traditional view of a writer detached from social issues whose work supported a wholesome view of a vanished America, or they have focused solely on revelations about her private life. Challenging these narrow interpretations, Janis P. Stout presents a Cather whose life and quietly modernist work fully reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day.".

"The Cather that emerges from Stout's treatment is a modernist conservative in the mold of T.S. Eliot, though more responsive to her time and simultaneously less assured in her pronouncements. Cather's sexuality, too, is more complicated in Stout's version than previous biographers have allowed."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American Novelists, Novelists, American, Women and literature, History, Biography, Cather, willa, 1873-1947, American literature, women authors, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century
Places: United States
People: Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3505.A87 Z863 2000