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Author Focus
Willa Cather
(1873-1947)
"Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole."
Major
Works:
April Twilights
(poetry), 1903, 1923
The Troll Garden (stories), 1905
Alexander's Bridge, 1912
The Song of the Lark,
1915
My Antonia, 1918
Youth and the Bright Medusa
(stories), 1920
One of Ours, 1922
A Lost Lady,
1923
The Professor's House, 1925
My Mortal Enemy,
1926
Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927
Shadows
on the Rock, 1931
Obscure Destinies (stories),
1932
Lucy Gayheart, 1935
Not Under Forty
(essays retitled Literary Excursions in the Autograph
Edition of Cather's collected works, 1937-41), 1936
Sapphira and the Slave Girl, 1940
The Old Beauty and
Others, 1948
Willa Cather on Writing, 1949
Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: 1915-1929, 1973
Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters,
1986.
Links:
- PAL: Willa Cather
- Domestic Goddess on Willa Cather - photographs, biography, bibliography, and a selection of critical essays.
- Willa Cather Information - provides a bibliography, description of pertinent locations, quotations, links
to biographies.
- Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation dedicated to the times, places, and writings of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
author.
- Willa Cather Site features an annotated timeline of her life, with commentary on works, as well as
a bibliography and other information.
- University of Nebraska: Willa Cather Archive
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