With a new dream and drive, Thea struggles to achieve her goals without compromising her values and independence. After feeling inspired by a visit to the orchestra, Thea decides to pursue a career as an opera singer. During her piano training, and with the help of some of her Chicago friends and mentors, Thea realizes that she has an impressive singing voice. After the death of a local conductor that had been enamored by her, Thea inherits enough money to pursue a formal music education in Chicago. Despite her new jobs and outlet for her musical ability, Thea feels unsatisfied in Colorado, but when tragedy strikes, she finally gets an opportunity to chase her dreams. She is also forced by her father to play the organ at their church because he believes this new devotion to a job would make her less pious. When Thea's piano instructor is run out of town over a scandal, Thea takes over his business at age fifteen. With the reputation of being different and strange, Thea has a challenging time getting along with her siblings and peers, though her mother and Aunt are supportive of her dreams. By the time of her death she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry.Born in a small Colorado town, Thea Kronborg's aspirations to be a famed musician makes it difficult for her to fit in. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944. Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia, and for One of Ours, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.
This Warbler Classics edition is based on the original 1915 edition and includes an extensive biographical timeline. In this moving portrait of an artist charting her own path, Cather created one of her most powerful female characters. All the while her hometown and its people remain the lodestone and wellspring of her emotional life. In choosing her art, she must constantly set aside the pull of home as well as romantic interests to pursue opportunities in Chicago, New York, and Germany. Against formidable familial and social pressures, Kronborg, a minister’s daughter from a small Colorado town, makes her way onto a world stage as she fully possesses-and shares-her musical gifts. In The Song of the Lark, Cather’s most autobiographical work, Thea Kronborg emerges as the heroine of her own life.
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