01623cam a2200301 i 4500 1748790863 TxAuBib 20241122120000.0 230404s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023005009 9780593298824 hardcover 0593298829 hardcover TxAuBib rda Taylor, Benjamin, 1952-, author. Chasing bright medusas : a life of Willa Cather / Benjamin Taylor. [New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023] 180 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index. To a desert place -- Outspokenness -- Years of frenzy -- The big clean up-grade -- Breaking free -- A painful and peculiar pleasure -- The bright faces of danger -- Deeper soundings -- This hardihood of spirit -- Things unguessed at and unforeseeable -- A kind of golden light -- If we had our lives to live over again -- Leave-takings. "A brief and tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the 20th century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as told by a life-long lover of Willa Cather's work"-- Provided by publisher. 20241122. Cather, Willa 1873-1947. Women novelists, American Biography. TXKIP