Tales of Town & Country - Cather, Willa
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These seven stories by Willa Cather, edited by Patricia T. O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman for Rushwater Press, are published here under the title Tales of Town & Country. All but one first appeared in periodicals. "A Death in the Desert" originally appeared in Scribner's Magazine, January 1903. "The Bohemian Girl" was first published McClure's Magazine, August 1912. "A Gold Slipper" originally appeared in Harper's Monthly Magazine, January 1917. "On the Divide" was first printed in Overland Monthly, January 1896. "Flavia and Her Artists" originally appeared in a collection of Cather's stories,…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
These seven stories by Willa Cather, edited by Patricia T. O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman for Rushwater Press, are published here under the title Tales of Town & Country. All but one first appeared in periodicals. "A Death in the Desert" originally appeared in Scribner's Magazine, January 1903. "The Bohemian Girl" was first published McClure's Magazine, August 1912. "A Gold Slipper" originally appeared in Harper's Monthly Magazine, January 1917. "On the Divide" was first printed in Overland Monthly, January 1896. "Flavia and Her Artists" originally appeared in a collection of Cather's stories, The Troll Garden, published in March 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. "The Bookkeeper's Wife" first appeared in The Century llustrated Monthly Magazine, May 1916. "Her Boss" was first published in October 1919 in both the American and the British editions of the magazine Smart Set. The version included here is from the American edition.
Autorenporträt
Willa Sibert Cather was a famous American writer known for her substantial novels. She was born in 1873 in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia. Her father's name was Charles Fectigue Cather and belonged from Wales. Her mother's name was Mary Virginia Boak, and she was a former school teacher. When Cather was twelve months old, her parents moved to Willow Shade, a Greek Revival-style home given to them by her paternal grandparents. Willa Cather has six siblings namely Roscoe, Douglass, Jessica, James, John, and Elsie. She was close to her brothers compared to her sisters. She graduated from Red Cloud High School in 1890. To enroll at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she later moved to Lincoln. In 1896, she moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a writer in a women's magazine, Home Monthly. A year later, she became a telegraph editor and critic for the Pittsburgh Leader and frequently contributed poetry and short fiction to The Library. She also started teaching Latin, algebra, and English in Pittsburgh for a year. During World War I in 1923, she got a Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours.