Bernice Slote, a distinguished Cather scholar, was a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her publications included editions of April "Twilights" (1903); "Poems of Willa Cather" (1962, 1968); "The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896" (1967); and "Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction" (1973, 1986), all published by the UNP.