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The Selected Letters Of Willa Cather (2013)

by Willa Cather(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

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History & Biography

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Knopf

review 1: I wrote this review for the paper:They said she’d burned all her letters, but thank goodness that wasn’t true. She did not want them published, but we can be grateful that the editors of the “Selected Letters of Willa Cather” didn’t let her have the last word.Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout scoured archives and family collections and stitched hundreds of Willa Cather’s letters to friends and family members into a revealing autobiography of one of this country’s greatest authors. We see her as a sassy schoolgirl in Nebraska in the 1880s. We see her striving to be a writer in Pittsburgh while her boss “does not think I will ever be able to do much at writing stories.” We see her turn the prairie she described as “so bleak and desolate” into the inspiratio... moren for much of her life’s work.Cather fans will love the behind-the-scenes looks at the making of “My Ántonia” and other classics. But no pre-reading is needed for anyone to enjoy the lively letters of a self-made woman who stayed true to herself, her family and her craft.
review 2: I'm marking this as read, but tbh I dipped in and out of these letters, skipping many, since I had to return this to NYPL. I don't think my Cather knowledge is thorough enough to really appreciate much of what is included here, nor do I think most books of letters from authors are that interesting--Elizabeth Bishop excluded, since she was hilarious and thoughtful. Cather seems to have been more utilitarian. But then, I often thought I was missing some nuance in her novels by not reading closely enough between the lines, so maybe that carries over into her personal correspondence? less

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