Willa Cather: A Lost Lady- A Book Discussion Series Led by Mark Scarbrough

LITCHFIELD, Conn. - Jan. 20, 2016 - PRLog -- Join Mark Scarbrough as he leads this discussion series featuring Willa Cather. Willa Cather is considered to be one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. Seen as a regional writer for decades after her passing in 1947, critics have increasingly identified Cather as a canonical American writer, the peer of authors like Hemingway, Faulkner and Wharton.

Born in Virginia in 1873, Cather settled in Webster County, Nebraska, in 1883. Though she lived the rest of her life in Pittsburgh and New York and traveled extensively, Cather’s depictions of the Nebraska prairie and farming communities were important milestones in American literature. “Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost citizen,” wrote author and Nobel Prize-winner Sinclair Lewis. “The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather’s books.”

February 7- A Lost Lady – A Lost Lady harks back to Nebraska’s early history and contrasts those days with an unsentimental portrait of the materialistic world that supplanted the frontier.

Mark Scarbrough started his professional life as an academic. He did his graduate work at the University of Wisconsin where he was the department’s senior lecturer, then landed in the English department at Saint Edward’s University in Austin. His academic papers included those on Chaucer and Harriet Beecher Stowe. After several years he resigned and moved to New York to write.

In New York, he met and married Bruce Weinstein. Together, they have written more than two dozen cookbooks, and have appeared on The Today Show, CBS This Morning and The View. His website is bruceandmark.com.

Books will be available to borrow one month in advance. All Oliver Wolcott Library events are free and open to the public. Space is limited. Registration is required and can be done by calling 860-567-8030 or logging onto www.owlibrary.org and clicking on Programs/Adult Programs.