These collections were followed by a co-authored critical biography of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy. It seems more likely though that, it is the artistic temperament "Paul's Case" has gained a reputation recently as concerning gay suicide.
Although no explicit sexuality is disclosed, Life in Pittsburgh for the bright lights of New York but ends up Study in Temperament", about a young man who flees dull middle-class The latter includes her most anthologized story, " Paul's Case: A Her first two books were, respectively, collections of poetry and short stories. Where she worked as a teacher and magazine editor until she gave them Novels, the moving and delightful My Ántonia.Īfter university, she moved back east to Pittsburgh and later New York Nebraska as a child, like the male narrator of one of her most famous
She was born Wilella Cather in Virginia, U.S.A., but moved to rural Rationality and business sense in with the supposed feminine charms of Mixing allegedly male traits of hard-nosed practicality, Narrators or male perspectives on the women characters. She undercut this interpretation of her work by often selecting male Make you think Cather would be regarded as a feminist writer. Lives in harsh settings where weaker men folk faltered. It would surprise many of her then-detractors to learn that so many years later so many of her books are cherished by so many readers.Ĭentre on strong, hardworking women, stepping in to build She did have a spell of relative fame in her forties with critical and popular acclaim-even winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1922-but by her late fifties her work was being reassessed as somewhat outdated. Willa Cather is one of those quietly achieving American writers, whose works are quietly appreciated in the shadow of the era's Great Writers but, going on a century later, are still being quietly appreciated when many of the once great ones are no longer read. THE AUTHOR | THE WORKS | VIEWS AND QUOTES Still relevant after all these years
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