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Books on Willa Cather Recommended by Andrew Jewell
We recently asked Willa Cather scholar Andrew Jewell to recommend books on Willa Cather's life and work, and it is our pleasure to present his recommendations below. All books can be found in the Library stacks.
Andrew Jewell is a Professor of Digital Projects at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and editor of the Willa Cather Archive, as well as a member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather and the forthcoming digital edition of The Complete Letters of Willa Cather.
Professor Jewell and fellow Cather scholar Robert Thacker discussed their research into Willa Cather’s books and letters and the influence of New York City on her work at the Library in February View the event recording here.
Though author Willa Cather has many fans, in my experience many of those readers are surprised and delighted to learn about the full range of Cather’s work. In addition to books about immigrant settlers and small town life in nineteenth-century Nebraska (O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, A Lost Lady), she wrote about academic families in the s (The Professor’s House), the emergence of a world-class Wagnerian soprano (The Song of the Lark), French
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“Extremely Orderly and Uncrazy”: Benjamin Taylor on His Revelatory New Biography of Willa Cather
Portrait of Willa Cather (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) and Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in Webster County, Nebraska (Public Domain)
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Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor (Viking, )
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