Willa cather biography book
Willa cather biography book
A lost lady by willa cather.
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“Extremely Orderly and Uncrazy”: Benjamin Taylor on His Revelatory New Biography of Willa Cather
Portrait of Willa Cather (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) and Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in Webster County, Nebraska (Public Domain)
What does it mean to mark a major anniversary—a 150th birthday, in this case—for a writer so gloriously out of time as Willa Cather?
Born on a Virginia farm on December 7, 1873, Cather relocated with her family to Red Cloud, Nebraska, when she was nine years old, setting in motion the contradiction that would animate her artistic life: on the one hand, an unstoppable drive to escape her provincial origins and enter the literary pantheon; on the other, a preternatural attachment and sensitivity to the landscape and genius loci of her childhood.
Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor (Viking, 2023)
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