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Willa Cather: A Lady Lost and Found

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870208
Author:Leon Edel

WILLA CATHER Early Novels and Stories Edited by Sharon O'Brien The Library of America. 1,336 pp. $27.50 WILLA CATHER The Emerging Voice By Sharon O'Brien Oxford University Press. 464 pp. $24.95

SHARON O'BRIEN has written an extended study of Willa Cather's first 40 years, the records of which the novelist later sought to obliterate. In her will she forbade publication of her letters; her friends were encouraged to burn them. Aided by her publisher, Alfred Knopf, and her companion of 40 years, Edith Lewis, she insisted on closing all approaches to her privacy; she encouraged a myth ...

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