The Diamond Mine Summary
Willa Cather

The Diamond Mine Summary

Willa Cather's short story "The Diamond Mine" was first published in McClure's magazine in 1916, although it almost was not published at all. The story was a blatant, fictionalized account of the life of Lillian Nordica, an American soprano, and publishers feared a lawsuit. The story was reprinted four years later in the collection Youth and the Bright Medusa, which featured other stories about the lives of artists in the early twentieth century. At...

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