First published in 1912, "Alexander's Bridge" is American author Willa
Cather's first novel. The story centers around Bartley Alexander, a
famous engineer and bridge builder who is going through a mid-life
crisis. Despite having a wife named Winifred, Bartley rekindles an old
flame in London-an affair that Bartley's innate propriety and honour
would make him regret. Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an American
writer famous for her novels related to frontier life on the Great
Plains. Other notable works by this author include: "O Pioneers!"
(1913), "The Song of the Lark" (1915), and "My Ántonia" (1918). She won
the Pulitzer Prize for her World War I novel "One of Ours"" (1922). This
classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an
excerpt from "Willa Cather - Written For The Borzoi, 1920" by H. L.
Mencken.