![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly thereafter she took heed of the great maxim: “write about about what you know” and she quickly produced her second, and far superior novel: O Pioneers! After the book was published, she went on a trip through the American desert to gather herself. Like other writers of the day, she had tried to copy the style of Henry James or Edith Wharton by writing about refined people in London and New York, while her heart remained on the Nebraska prairie. The novel was ultimately a dud, and Cather knew it from the moment it was published. It was a tragic story about a bridge failing in Canada, while a group of oblivious oligarchs drank tea and engaged in various affairs with one another. When Willa Cather was thirty-nine years old she wrote her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge, which was published as a serial collection in McClure’s Magazine in 1912. “Wasatch Mountains and Great Plains in distance, Nebraska” by Albert Bierstadt in 1877 ![]()
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