Achievement a prolific writer of a dozen books and sixty short stories, Willa Cather is an excellent stylist and structuralist. Her novels and stories chronicle the frontier experience, the plight of the artist during the age of industrialism and progress, and the alienation and initiation of the young. Her description of desert scenes of the mesas and of farms are like impessionistic landscape paintings.◼ Achievement ◼ A prolific writer of a dozen books and sixty short stories, Willa Cather is an excellent stylist and structuralist. Her novels and stories chronicle the frontier experience, the plight of the artist during the age of industrialism and progress, and the alienation and initiation of the young. Her description of desert scenes, of the mesas, and of farms are like impessionistic landscape paintings