Canad. M. 40 ('13): 455 (portrait); 47 ('16): 425 (portrait); 56 ('21): 521. Critic, 40 ('02): 155 (portrait), 161; 42 ('03): 397 (portrait). Ind. 57 ('04): 1131, 1132 (portrait); 65 ('08): 1335 (portrait). Lit. Digest, 50 ('15): 113. R. of Rs. 46 ('12): 619 (portrait). +Willa Sibert Cather+--novelist, short-story writer. Born at Winchester, Virginia, 1875. A.B., University of Nebraska, 1895; Litt. D., 1917. On staff of _Pittsburgh Daily Leader_, 1897-1901. Associate editor of _McClure's Magazine_, 1906-12. SUGGESTIONS FOR READING 1. Miss Cather's special field is the pioneer life of immigrants in the Middle West. Points to be considered are: (1) her realism; (2) her detachment or objectivity; (3) her sympathy. 2. In what other respects does she stand out among the leading women novelists of today? 3. What is the value of her material? 4. Compare her studies with those of Cahan (q.v.), Cournos (q.v.), and Tobenkin (q.v.). BIBLIOGRAPHY April Twilights. 1903. (Poems.) The Troll Garden. 1905. (Short stories.) Alexander's Bridge. 1912. The Bohemian Girl. 1912. *O Pioneers. 1913. The Song of the Lark. 1915. *My Antonia. 1918. Youth and the Bright Medusa. 1920. (Short Stories.) One of Ours. 1922. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Overton. Bookm. 21 ('05): 456 (portrait); 27 ('08): 152 (portrait); 53 ('21): 212 (portrait). Lond. Times, June 23, 1921: 403. Nation, 113 ('21): 92. New Repub. 25 ('21): 233. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915, 1918, 1920. +George Randolph Chester+ (Ohio, 1869)--novelist, short-story writer. The inventor of the _Get-Rich-Quick-Wallingford_ type of fiction. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_. +Winston Churchill+--novelist. Born at St. Louis, 1871. Graduate of U.S. Naval Academy, 1894. Honorary higher degrees. Member of New Hampshire Legislature 1903, 1905. Fought boss and corporation control and was barely defeated for governor of the state, 1908. Lives at Cornish, New Hampshire. SUGGESTIONS FOR READING As an aid to analysis of Mr. Churchill's work, consider Mr. Carl Van Doren's article in the _Nation_, of which the most striking passages are quoted below: To reflect a little upon this combination of heroic color and moral earnestness is to discover how much Mr. Churchill owes to the element injected into American life by Theodore Roosevelt.... Like him Mr. Churchill has habitually moved along the main lines of national feeling--believing in America and democracy with a fealty unshaken by any adverse evidence and delighting in the American pageant with a gusto rarely modified by the exercise of any critical intelligence. Morally he has been strenuous and eager; intellectually he has been naive and belated. * * * * *