![]() ![]() This is unfortunate when one considers the wealth of information we get from the letters of other esteemed authors. She destroyed correspondence and forbade anyone from publishing her letters. There is not as much personal information available about Cather-the term “secretive” is a negative way of phrasing it-so I would just say that she kept her private life private. Her career began as a magazine writer and editor and she later wrote books, including the acclaimed and popular Prairie Trilogy ( O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia)-which, no, are not cowboy stories. ![]() Wilella (which she shortened to Willa) Sibert Cather was born in 1873 and graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1894. Recalcitrant children-of any age-need to be redirected, pointed in a proper direction, which is what happened to me when Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop came my way and I was happily nudged to read one of “Time’s 100 Best English-language Novels” and to learn about its author. Willa Cather is an important name in American literature (that much I have learned tangentially over the years) but I must have been playing hooky when she came up in class (I blame myself, not the schools). ![]() I must reveal a gap in my education and invite people along while I expand my mind. ![]()
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