who wrote death comes to the archbishop
1 American literature (in American literature: Lyric fictionists) 2  relationship to Santa Fe (in Santa Fe (New Mexico, United States))  The University of Adelaide - Death Comes for the Archbishop. Death Comes for the Archbishop, novel by Willa Cather, published in 1927. The novel is based on the lives of Bishop Jean Baptiste LâAmy and his vicar Father Joseph Machebeut and is considered emblematic of the authorâs moral and spiritual concerns.