A biography of the American author Willa Cather, emphasizing her youth and early career but covering all of her life.

"A chapter book biography of Willa Cather, an American novelist"--

"This book tells for the first time the story of the central relationship of novelist Willa Cather's life, her nearly forty-year partnership with Edith Lewis. Cather has been described as a distinguished artist who turned her back on the crass commercialism of the early twentieth century and as a deeply private woman who strove to hide her sexuality, and Lewis has often been identified as her secretary. However, Lewis was a successful professional...