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REMEMBERING A WRITER WHO TOWERED OVER THE PRAIRIE

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050907
Author:Sam Allis, Globe Staff

Willa Cather won the Pulitzer Prize and appeared on the cover of Time magazine when that meant something. She gained critical and eventual commercial success for books like "O Pioneers!" and "My Antonia" and wrote one of the great books of the 20th century, "Death Comes for the Archbishop." Her work is secure in the American literary canon.

And yet she is a faint name on academic reading lists today. High school and college students usually make her passing acquaintance and then move briskly to Zadie Smith. To many, she is dated and quaint, tied indelibly to the heroic idealism of the ...

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