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...notes that when she was in college majoring in English, the only women writers she read were Willa Cather and Emily Dickenson...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: 10th ANNIVERSARY | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

Here we have our Literary City, birthplace and/or alma mater to Willa Cather, Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, B. Traven, Algren, Bellow. Who gets to hang the tag on it? Carl Sandburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WE TAKE THE BRASH VIEW | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...extensive reading list focuses primarily on twentieth century American writers such as Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, Jack London and William Faulkner...

Author: By Nicholas K. Mitrokostas, | Title: Fisher Shines in Top English Course | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

...have supporting roles in the movies that are other people's lives. Sometimes we are so enthralled with someone else that we barely star in our own. Denial of self becomes a silent declaration of love -- especially a first love like Sophie's. She could be a sister to Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart or a daughter to Stevens the butler in The Remains of the Day. This implosive sort of devotion is found often enough in life but rarely in films. That The Accompanist exists at all is the first reason to cherish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Shadow of Stardom | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...others. But Peck usually displays a full command of the different tones he employs. The short story format allows him to try on narrative voices that range from the biting to the lyrical, and he achieves effects that recall such very different writers as Raymond Carver and Willa Cather...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Brutal Facts, Beautiful Fiction | 2/4/1993 | See Source »

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