She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers—Observer
The time will come when she will be ranked above Hemingway—Leon Edel
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic—Helen Dunmore
The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work—A. S. Byatt
In her writing, an almost bardic ability to hold us with stories coexists with a blazing commitment to a moral view of human distinction and human turpitude that recalls Wharton without the cynicism and Conrad without the weightiness . . . Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page—Marina Warner
A tremendous, ranging story, economical and distilled as poetry, fast moving, rich and short. A mighty subject. A lovely book—JANE GARDAM of DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic—HELEN DUNMORE
In her writing, an almost bardic ability to hold us with stories coexists with a blazing commitment to a moral view of human distinction and human turpitude that recalls Wharton without the cynicism and Conrad without the weightiness ... Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page—MARINA WARNER
“I didn’t want that more traditional kind of arc of childhood to a certain stance of wisdom or resignation or triumph. I wanted—partly because I felt with Negroland, and very much with this book—that ability to change persona, change my position, to acknowledge that one was performing at times, and that one played many, many […]