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Written by Willa Cather - Performed by Marian Seldes - Audio-Original Nonfiction - 1 CASSETTE - 1 hour, 35 minutes

Publisher, Audio Partners (1996)

A superb actress interprets the stirring words of a brilliant author into a lyrical evocation of Cather's life and work. Includes: Peter, selections from My Antonia, Lucy Gayheart, plus poems and essays. Named a 1996 Best Audio for Historical Dramatization by Publishers Weekly.

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Performed by Marian Seldes and Recorded Live at Merkin Concert Hall at Abraham Goodman House in New York City. Introduced by Nancy Lindemeyer, Editor in Chief of Victoria

”Her suits were soft, but rather severe—very distinguished looking—and her eves were the most amazing pale, pale blue, like pieces of sky floating in her face." -trUMAN CAPOTE ON WILLA CATHER

When a superb actress interprets the stirring words of an author such as Willa Cather, new vistas of understanding open. This special performance, produced by Victoria, brings to life a beloved author as we hear the very rhythms of her thought. Born in 1873 in Virginia, Gather moved to Nebraska when she was nine. From her experience of the prairie, Cather produced starkly real novels and stories about the frontier—such as 0 Pioneers! and My Antonia—as well as lyrical evocations of small-town life such as Lucy Gayheart. Her first published book was a collection of poems, three of which—"Prairie Spring," "Prairie Dawn," and "Evening Song"—are presented here, as is her first published short story, "Peter." Cather wrote numerous reviews and essays on writing. This performance includes a review of Henry James' The Tragic Muse and her essay "Light on Adobe Walls."

About the Performer: MARIAN SELDES fell in love with Lucy Gayheart when she was a girl and has steeped herself in Cather's writing. It was natural, then, for her to construct this reading of Cather's work in the writer's own voice, weaving bits of biography among the selections. Her performance includes a surprise encore—a tribute to Gather in the words of Truman Capote. The Tony and Obie award—winning Ms. Seldes is also the author of Bright Lights: A Theatre Life and Time Together, a novel.