Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013Willa Cather\'s letters--withheld from publication for more than six decades--are finally available to the public in this fascinating selection.
She has also edited two volumes on Cather and written a memoir about retirement, This Last House..
Janis Stout is the author of nine scholarly books, including Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World and two books about Katherine Anne Porter.
He is coeditor of the book The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age and a member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors. edu). unl.
About the Author: Andrew Jewell is an associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and editor of the Willa Cather Archive (cather.
A deep pleasure to read, this volume reveals the intimate joys and sorrows of one of America\'s most admired writers.
The voice is one we recognize from her fiction: confident, elegant, detailed, openhearted, concerned with profound ideas, but also at times sentimental, sarcastic, and funny.
Above all, they reveal her passionate interest in people, literature, and the arts.
They describe her many travels and record her last years, when the loss of loved ones and the disasters of World War II brought her near to despair.
The hundreds collected here range from witty reports of life as a teenager in Red Cloud in the 1880s through her college years at the University of Nebraska, her time as a journalist in Pittsburgh and New York, and her growing eminence as a novelist.
Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013Willa Cather\'s letters--withheld from publication for more than six decades--are finally available to the public in this fascinating selection
