Dimensions
199 x 133 x 25mm
A masterly biography of one of America's most important 20th-century writers, written by Hermione Lee
Willa Cather is one of America's foremost 20th-centry writers. Born in Virginia in 1873, she was uprooted from the landscape her family had farmed for generations, to Nebraska. The startling transition from ordered life in Virginia to the wild west prairies stirred her imagination and coloured her life and work, leading to the two most famous frontier novels: MY ANTONIA and O PIONEERS! After graduating, she worked as a teacher and journalist, and in 1912 she began to write short stories and novels, winning the Pulitzer Prize just ten years later. Travelling beneath the apparently simple surface of Cather's work, Lee presents an illuminating picture of this fascinating writer.
