Cat Wise:
Like her sculptor, Cather strove to capture the humanity of her subjects, and that's what set her writing apart and gave it staying power, says scholar Andy Jewell.
Andrew Jewell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: I grew up in Nebraska, and, initially, I avoided Cather's work because I had a lot of assumptions about it.
I thought it would be boring prairie stuff and pioneers. I didn't want that. But then I actually read it, and I realized that it was about a depth and poignancy of emotion and experience more than it was about any individual region. It's about human life that happened to be set in this place that Cather knew.
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