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- Title
BETWEEN CANDOR AND CONCEALMENT: WILLA CATHER AND (AUTO)BIOGRAPHY.
- Authors
STOUT, JANIS P.
- Abstract
The article discusses the attitude toward biography and autobiography of U.S. author Willa Cather (1873-1947). Her commitment to personal privacy, both her own and others', is discussed, and attributed both to late-19th-century middle class values and her concealed status as a lesbian. Her own biographical writings are discussed, including her involvement as a ghost writer of a biography of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy and the autobiography of U.S. journalist S. S. McClure. Her aversion to any biography of herself and the autobiographical elements in her fiction are also discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CATHER, Willa, 1873-1947; AMERICAN women novelists; BIOGRAPHIES of women authors; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); AUTOBIOGRAPHY writing; GHOSTWRITING
- Publication
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 2009, Vol 32, Issue 3, p467
- ISSN
0162-4962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/bio.0.0114