Biographies

We offer here two biographical sketches, both written by Amy Ahearn especially for the Cather Archive, and James Woodress's full-length Willa Cather: A Literary Life, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1989.

Willa Cather: A Brief Biographical Sketch (about 500 words), by Amy Ahearn

Willa Cather: A Longer Biographical Sketch (about 3000 words), by Amy Ahearn

Willa Cather: A Literary Life, by James Woodress (Lincoln and London: U of Nebraska P, 1987)