Willa Cather was born in an interesting spot in the mountains of Virginia, near Winchester, on the banks of a tributary of the Potomac, Back Creek. My Ántonia is one of her best-loved books, and it displays all the characteristics that make Cather both elusive and fascinating even as it depicts a world that vanished almost as soon as the novel was published. Forty-five years is a long career for a novelist, but she possessed an intensity of observation and a curiosity about human psychology, especially as it relates to nature, that never waned. Her last novel appeared in 1940, and a volume of three more stories was published in 1948, shortly after she died. Cather’s first book of poetry came out in 1903, when she was twenty-nine her first book of stories followed a couple years later, when she was thirty-one. Willa Cather was not a flashy stylist, and though she was ambitious in her work, she did not attach it to a publicity-worthy life like some of her contemporaries, such as Ernest Hemingway and F.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |