Willa Cather's America

Willa Cather’s story is one defined by a lifetime of determination, struggle, and gradual emergence. The writer, who emerged at the forefront of American letters with O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Antonia (1918); was already well into middle-age. This introduction to one of the most widely read novelists of the early twentieth century will explore her turbulent biography and uniquely American voice. Sprinkled into the lecture: readings of Cather’s work, performed by two professional actors, including letters to Alfred Knopf, her publisher, and Edith Lewis, Cather’s domestic partner of nearly 40 years.