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Born in 1873 to a family who had farmed in Virginia for generations, Willa Cather moved to her father's new ranch in Nebraska when she was eight. The raw frontier territories and the pioneer life of the Old West were to awaken her imagination and furnish the atmosphere for much of her later work. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, Willa Cather became a teacher and a journalist. In 1912 she abandoned journalism to write full time. Her first novel was Alexander's Bridge (1912) though she had already published a volume of poems and another of short stories. Her vivid novels cover a wide range: there are impassioned and thoughtful explorations of the ancient worlds of the Americas in The Professor's House (1925) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) as well as sympathetic portrayals of conflicting values, or of the demands of art. These, along with her evocations of the pioneering West, soon established her reputation as one of America's foremost writers. Willa Cather died in New York in 1947.She is undoubtedly <b>one of the greatest American writers</b>
Observer
The time will come when she will be <b>ranked above Hemingway</b>
- Leon Edel,
Willa Cather makes <b>a world which is burningly alive</b>, sometimes lovely, often tragic
- Helen Dunmore,
<i>The Song of the Lark</i> illuminates all her work
- A. S. Byatt,
In her writing, an almost bardic ability to hold us with stories coexists with a<b> blazing commitment to a moral view of human distinction and human turpitude</b> that recalls Wharton without the cynicism and Conrad without the weightiness . . . Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page
- Marina Warner,
A tremendous, ranging story, economical and distilled as poetry, fast moving, rich and short. A mighty subject. A lovely book
JANE GARDAM of DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic
HELEN DUNMORE
In her writing, an almost bardic ability to hold us with stories coexists with a blazing commitment to a moral view of human distinction and human turpitude that recalls Wharton without the cynicism and Conrad without the weightiness ... Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page
MARINA WARNER
'She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers' OBSERVER
'The time will come when she will be ranked above Hemingway' LEON EDEL
'The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work' A. S. BYATT
Thea Kronborg is born into poverty in a small desert town in the American Midwest. One of seven children, she is somehow set apart, a fact recognised by the discerning few, including Ray Kennedy who longs to marry her, but whose fate it is to set her free.
With her rugged will and pioneer spirit, Thea carves her way from Moonstone, Colorado, to windy Chicago, from Dresden to New York and a triumphant debut at the Metropolitan Opera. She becomes a great opera singer but learns that as a true artist, she must make the most bitter sacrifices of all . . .
In prose as shimmering and piercingly true as the light in a desert canyon, Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her deepest self.