PART TEN

Years of Grieving

1937–1939

As for me, I have cared too much, about people and places—cared too hard. It made me, as a writer. But it will break me in the end.

—WILLA CATHER TO ROSCOE CATHER, November 6, 1938

Willa Cather on Grand Manan Island, 1930s (photo credit 10.1)