Willa Cather

O Pioneers!: A Norton Critical Edition - Norton Critical Editions Willa Cather Critical edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-459). Publisher Marketing: This Norton Critical Edition brings to life through Cather's words, and through the words and images of others the uniquely American frontier experience. In inscribing a copy of O Pioneers! for a childhood friend, Cather wrote, "In this one I hit the home pasture " "Contexts and Backgrounds" includes a rich selection of autobiographical and biographical remembrances (including three interviews with Cather), literary contexts (by Cather and her contemporaries, Henry James and Sarah Orne Jewett), and writings on the American West (including selected letters that paint a picture of one family's life on the Nebraska prairie). "Criticism" provides seven contemporary reviews and eight modern critical interpretations by David Stouck, John J. Murphy, C. Susan Wiesenthal, Marilee Lindemann, Melissa Ryan, Guy Reynolds, and Sharon O'Brien." Review Citations:

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 900 (EAN 9780199552320, Paperback)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 125 (EAN 9780199552320, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 734 (EAN 9780192832160, Paperback)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 90 (EAN 9780192832160, Paperback)

School Library Journal 03/01/2014 pg. 74 (EAN 9781629230764, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review

Contributor Bio:  Cather, Willa A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Willa Cather's work was profoundly influenced by her upbringing in rural Nebraska. During her young adulthood Cather proved herself intelligent and capable, initially training for a career as a medical doctor, but discovered a love of, and talent for, writing while attending the University of Nebraska. Following graduation, Cather worked as a journalist for several women's magazines before becoming a high school teacher; an opportunity work as an editor at McClure's provided Cather with her first chance to publish as the magazine serialized her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, to critical acclaim. This was soon followed by works that have since become best-loved American classics, including My ?ntonia, The Song of the Lark, and her Pulitzer-Prize winner, One of Ours. Cather died in 1947 at the age of 73. Contributor Bio:  O'Brien, Sharon Sharon O'Brien is an acclaimed author of both trade and scholarly books and a well-known Cather scholar. She is James Hope Caldwell Professor of American Cultures at Dickinson College. She is the author of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice; Willa Cather; and The Family Silver: A Memoir of Depression and Inheritance. She is the editor of The Library of America Willa Cather (Volumes I-III) and New Essays on My Antonia.