Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ - Cather, Willa; Noyes, Alfred
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Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her novels; O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. In 1906 Cather became the managing editor of McClure's magazine. As a muckraker journalist Cather co-authored a scathing biography of the head of the Christian Science church, Mary Baker, Eddy. Alexander's Bridge is the story of a great engineer who reaches a crisis in his life when his responsibilities increase and his success begins a decline. Through his relations with two women--Winifred, his wife, and Hilda, a young Irish actress--Alexander learns to know himself.…mehr

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Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her novels; O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. In 1906 Cather became the managing editor of McClure's magazine. As a muckraker journalist Cather co-authored a scathing biography of the head of the Christian Science church, Mary Baker, Eddy. Alexander's Bridge is the story of a great engineer who reaches a crisis in his life when his responsibilities increase and his success begins a decline. Through his relations with two women--Winifred, his wife, and Hilda, a young Irish actress--Alexander learns to know himself.
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Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944. By the time of her death in 1947 she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry.