Willa Cather: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Biographies with analyses of her works include Sharon O’Brien, Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice (1987, reissued 1997); and James Woodress, Willa Cather: A Literary Life (1987). Benjamin Taylor, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather (2023), is a brief biography.
Critical interpretations are Merrill Maguire Skaggs, After the World Broke in Two: The Later Novels of Willa Cather (1990); Loretta Wasserman, Willa Cather: A Study of the Short Fiction (1991); Laura Winters, Willa Cather: Landscape and Exile (1993); Edward Wagenknecht, Willa Cather (1994); Joseph R. Urgo, Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration (1995); Sally Peltier Harvey, Redefining the American Dream: The Novels of Willa Cather (1995); and Philip Gerber, Willa Cather, rev. ed. (1995).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 20, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Dec 03, 2025 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Willa Cather. | Mar 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Willa Cather Archive - Life. | Oct 12, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| Additional Reading revised. | Jan 04, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Willa Cather. | Jan 29, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Willa Cather. | Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - Biography of Willa Cather. | Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Willa Cather. | Apr 10, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Amercian Society of Authors and Writers - Biography of Willa Cather. | Dec 01, 2013 | ||
| Noted publication of volume of correspondence. | May 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Literature Network - Biography of Willa Cather. | Feb 06, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Illinois at Chicago - Biography of Willa Cather. | Feb 06, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Willa Cather: The Road is All. | Jun 08, 2012 | ||
| Added new Web site: Official website of Willa Cather Foundation. | Feb 25, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: American Collection - "The Song of the Lark". | Apr 23, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: American Collection - "The Song of the Lark". | Apr 23, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of Groningen - Revolution to Reconstruction - Biography of Willa Cather. | May 07, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: PBS Online - Willa Cather. | Aug 02, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Literature.org - "Alexander's Bridge" by Willa Cather. | Jul 07, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library - The Song of the Lark - Willa Sibert Cather. | Jun 13, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Domestic Goddesses. | Jun 09, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library - Youth and the Bright Medusa - Willa Sibert Cather. | Jun 04, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: My Antonia by Willa Sibert Cather. | May 10, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 17, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |