The hardscrabble origins and unique vision of novelist Willa Cather – Eric Banks

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, despite the author's wish for her correspondence to remain unpublished, finally sees the light of day this month. The editors of the book, Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout, take us inside the private life of a great American writer.

Alex Ross on Willa Cather’s war novel “One of Ours,” from 1922, which merged the flu pandemic of 1918 and the First World War into a general season of death.

The Song of the Lark | Willa Cather Archive

Alex Ross on how Nebraska’s landscape inspired the great American novelist Willa Cather.

Willa Cather's most enduring characters are prairie women, Bohemian Ántonia of My Ántonia and Swedish matriarch Alexandra of O Pioneers! Each is as stalwart as any frontier man. Cather is still celebrated as one of the finest prose stylists of the early 20th century. But access to her personal correspondence has been unheard of, until now.

Willa Cather is often remembered as cantankerous and reclusive by biographers, but that’s not the necessarily the case. Willa Cather is sometimes remembered by biographers as cantankerous and reclusive. While […]

AP PhotoWilla Cather, American author and 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner, is seen in this photo from March 1931. Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872), American novelist Willa Cather (1873), Irish novelist Joyce Cary (1888), American linguist and political analyst Noam Chomsky...

W.T.Benda illustration "Lena" for "My Antonia" by Willa Cather.

I’ve never paid much attention to certain aspects of the books I love. Author’s biographies, generally speaking, don’t contribute much to my appreciation for a work. And I must confess that the seq…