The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis

A groundbreaking new look at American novelist Willa Cather's creative process

What would Willa Cather's widely read and cherished novels have looked like if she had never met magazine editor and copywriter Edith Lewis? In this groundbreaking book on Cather's relationship with her life partner, author Melissa J. Homestead counters the established portrayal of Cather as a solitary genius and reassesses the role that Lewis, who has so far been rendered largely invisible by scholars, played in ...