Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice

by Sharon O'Brien

Book Overview

This is the first in-depth biography of Willa Cather in thirty years, and the first ever that fully integrates her life and work. The author of such classics as Death Comes to the Archbishop and O Pioneers was a complex, passionate and gifted woman trying to forge a new kind of identity for herself as a woman and artist before there were adequate models for this kind of self. "Voice" is the metaphor Cather used to describe her attainment of literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195041321
• ISBN13: 9780195041323
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"