Author: Robinson, Phyllis C.,
Title: Willa: the life of Willa Cather.
Description: NY, Holt Rinehart, (1984). 1st ed thus. VG lg sz PB. An enthusiastic appreciative chronicle of one of America's greatest woman writers. Ft cover edge repaired 1" tear. Cather wrote the classic novels of the American frontier - My Antonia and O Pioneers! and identified closely withthe self-reliant spirit of the Nebraska prairie. The turning point of her career and her personal life came when she was invited by S.S. McClure to go to NYC in 1906 to be an editor at McClure's Magazine led to her increasing fame as a writer of such novels as Death Comes for the Archbishop as well as short stories and articles. Here at last is a book that presents the real Willa Cather in all her fascinating complexity. The merit of author Robinson's book "lies in its power to make one wish to experience that art directly - in short, t read Cather, either newly or again." -The Atlantic Monthly.

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