" Published in 1912 in America by the Houghton Mifflin Company and in London by William Heinemann, Alexander’s Bridge is Cather’s first novel. It was a relatively late debut into novel writing as Cather was thirty-nine years old at the time, but her writing career had begun as an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska, when she published an article about Thomas Carlyle in the Nebraska State Journal. "

― Willa Cather , Delphi Collected Works of Willa Cather