Acocella, Joan Ross, Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism, Vintage Books, 2002.

This book is a controversial argument in favor of Willa Cather and her work. Acocella criticizes previous reviews of other critics—who sometimes focused on Cather's personal life and not her works themselves—and discusses how these undeserved reviews helped to obscure Cather's works.

Fiedler, Johanna, Molto Agitato: The Mayhem behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera, Doubleday, 2001.

Fiedler, a press representative at the Metropolitan Opera, "the Met," for fifteen years, gives a thorough history of this massive musical enterprise. The book examines the Opera house from its inception in 1883 until today and discusses both the day-to-day dealings and the behind-the-scenes anecdotes from this famous American institution.

Gerber, Philip L., Willa Cather, Twayne Publishers, 1995.

This is an overview of Willa Cather's literary career. Her early, middle, and final stage novels are covered...