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K-3
American Women Writers series.
Illustrated by
Wendell Minor.
Brief chapters (each spanning a short interval of years) reflect the numerous locations of Willa Cather's childhood and early adult life on which the beloved American writer based her novels and essays. Watercolor and gouache illustrations evoke the landscapes so crucial to Cather's story. Succinct sketches of other nineteenth-century women writers round out the approachable, albeit fairly basic, chapter-book biography. Timeline. Bib.