Ms. Ehrlich organizes this biography according to the years Willa lived in specific areas and relates how those locations, its people, and her pursuits affected her. A detailed timeline of her life and her work is included in the back plus a list with summaries of other American women writers during her time (a feminist slant comes forth in the summaries).
The illustrations (some two page spreads) are beautiful.
Warning: Willa liked to dress up as a boy. When she was fourteen she cut her hair and called herself either William Cather Jr. or William Cather, M.D. Edith Lewis is described as her "lifelong companion" in the timeline summary (but back then sometimes the same gender lived together for companionship, not necessarily because of romantic attraction).
-Borrowed from the library.
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