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the Unconventional willa cather
From: Humanities
Date: 20050701
Author:Johnson, Janis
From an early age, novelist Willa Gather was determined to be noticed by the world. At fourteen she shocked her hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, by masquerading as a boy. In college she became a feared cultural critic for the local newspaper. By her late twenties she was one of the most formidable women in American publishing.
"From the beginning, she had a single-minded goal to be great," says Christine Lesiak, coproducer and writer of Willa Gather: The Road Is All, an NEH-supported documentary from NET Television in Nebraska, which will be broadcast September 7 on PBS's American Masters.
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