![]() To them, she insipidly took the worst of life and praised the heroic. Mencken-it began to crumble at the hands of the “literary realists” in the 1930s. As strong as her reputation had been in the ’10s and ’20s-with unadulterated praise from such formidable critics as H.L. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald have overshadowed this brilliant writer from the central Great Plains, and it didn’t help her that she was literarily a romantic, politically anti-Progressive and anti-war, and, by the 1930s, skeptical of the New Deal. The following year, 1913, she published her first novel in full novel form, the stunning “O, Pioneers!”, which takes its title from a Walt Whitman poem.įor nearly a century, though, writers such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Indeed, her first novel, “Alexander’s Bridge,” came out 109 years ago in serialized format in McClure’s Magazine. ![]() ![]() One of America’s greatest literary regionalists, Nebraskan Willa Cather (1873–1947), has only slowly and gradually been gaining recognition over the past century as one of our country’s greatest novelists. Every once in a while, slow and steady wins the race. ![]()
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