Description:
The Professor's House ranks among Willa Cather's most lyrical, accomplished, and evocative novels. This Warbler Classics edition includes a detailed biographical timeline.
Brief description: Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944. By the time of her death in 1947 she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry.
Review Quotes:
"Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us."
-Rebecca West