Not Under FortyNot Under Forty is the last book published in Cather's lifetime (1873 1947). It is a collection of six essays that critique various writers and the craft of writing in general. Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or