She placed in the biographer's path, and until now sufficient material has not beenĪvailable to flesh out more than a medium-length life.
The absence of a detailed biography is probably due to the traps, pitfalls, and barricades can be more certain than she to capture ultimately the admiration of posterity.' At the time of her death J.ĭonald Adams wrote in the New York Times that 'no American novelist was more purely an artist,' and George Whicher declared four years later that 'no American writer. Succeeding decades her stature has continued to grow. When she died, her reputation wasįirmly established as one of the most significant American novelists, and during the Has been the subject of a full-length biography. April Twilights and The Troll GardenĪlthough forty years have passed since the death of Willa Cather in 1947, she never