Humanities, July 1st, 2005
From an early age, novelist Willa Gather was determined to be noticed by the world. At fourteen she shocked her hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, by masquerading as a boy. In college she became a feared cultural critic for the local newspaper. By her late twenties she was one of the most formidable women in American publishing.
"From the beginning, she had a single-minded goal to be great," says Christine Lesiak, coproducer and writer of Willa Gather: The Road Is All, an NEH-supported documentary from NET Television in Nebraska, which will be broadcast September 7 on PBS's American Masters.
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