DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
New York: Knopf, (1927). First edition. Hardcover. First issue, no jacket. The fictional portrayal of New Mexico’s first Catholic archbishop, Jean-Baptiste Lamy (called Jean-Marie Latour in the book) is beautifully written in Cather’s sparse but descriptive language. Its chapters—a series of tableaus in Latour’s life—are based on Cather’s own research..... More