Willa Cather was born on this day in 1873.
From a letter to William Lyon Phelps, critic and professor, May 29, 1943. Phelps has sent along a comment from J.M. Barrie about A Lost Lady. In her reply, Cather recalls that, through a friend, Barrie had used “gentle pressure” to secure an autographed copy of My Ántonia :
I did not take it seriously, for I don’t think writers often care about autographed copies. (After all, isn’t the one real and only autograph in the book itself, on every page of it?)But Cather sent a signed copy.
Heber Taylor has also taken note of Cather’s birthday.
Related reading
All OCA Cather posts (Raindrop.io) : All OCA posts from Cather’s letters
[A Lost Lady was published in 1923, and Barrie died in 1937. The Pinboard link does a search — no account needed.]
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