Willa Cather’s Peers: Neglected Midwestern Women Writers – Thornfield Hall
If asked to list midwestern women writers of the early 20th century, you might be perplexed momentarily. Then you remember Willa Cather, the Pulitzer Prize winner, and the effect of her brilliant novels on generations of women. Her masterpieces, A Lost Lady, The Professor's House, and Lucy Gayheart, are incomparable, deftly mixing tragedy and humor.…