Cather’s letters offer personal view of private author
Should an author’s letters be published despite their wishes?
For years, everyday readers of Willa Cather’s award-winning novels knew more about the characters in her books than they did about the author.
Since her death in 1947, Cather’s personal letters have been banned from publication, according to very specific instructions in her will.
But next month, for the first time, more than 550 of Cather’s letters are being revealed to the public in a new book, “The Selected Letters of Willa Cather,” co-edited by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Associate Professor Andrew Jewell and Texas A&M Professor Emeritus Janis Stout.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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