This is intriguing and illuminating -- and the Willa Cather Archive is utterly fantastic. (I took a deep dive into it when I read My Antonia and O Pioneers back to back a little while ago.) But at least one of her late novels does seem to retain a critical reputation today (I am not sure how it was received at the time.) This is of course Death Comes for the Archbishop. I am also extremely fond of the novella A Lost Lady (1923), which to me extends her "Prairie Trilogy" to a fourth book.
This is intriguing and illuminating -- and the Willa Cather Archive is utterly fantastic. (I took a deep dive into it when I read My Antonia and O Pioneers back to back a little while ago.) But at least one of her late novels does seem to retain a critical reputation today (I am not sure how it was received at the time.) This is of course Death Comes for the Archbishop. I am also extremely fond of the novella A Lost Lady (1923), which to me extends her "Prairie Trilogy" to a fourth book.