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Welcome to the Willa Cather Foundation Website
The Willa Cather Foundation invites you to experience the life, times, and work of Willa Cather. Here, you can tour her home, read her work, visit her beloved Opera House, and shop the largest collection of books by and about Cather. Visit us regularly for news on conferences, publications, and information about the ongoing restoration and preservation of the largest living memorial to an author in the country, in Red Cloud, Nebraska.


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Prairie Writers' Workshop

"Fiction and Art": A fiction writing workshop, with a careful look at art and design in Nebraska narratives. The Willa Cather Foundation would like to invite you to attend this year's Prairie Writers' Workshop scheduled for July 13 through 17. This is an exceptional opportunity for aspiri...

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“Not Stories At All, But Life Itself”

The Right Reverend Frank T. Griswold, XXV Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, addresses the Cather Spring Conference. "It would not be an exaggeration to say that Willa Cather is partly responsible for my choosing the path I have chosen." A singularly memorable event during the 2009 ...

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Spring Conference 2009: A Story of a Photograph

While selecting photographs from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Archives and Special Collections for a gallery exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House, I came across one image that I liked very much. In it, Willa Cather is holding a small baby, her niece Helen Louise Cather, and they are...

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Willa Cather Foundation Receives Award

The website for the Willa Cather Foundation received a Merit    Certificate for excellence from the Lincoln, Nebraska chapter of the  American Marketing Association at its annual Prism Awards luncheon in May 2009. The award recognizes the website's striking design and strong functional...

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Elderhostel

Red Cloud:  Willa Cather's Window to the World June 15-19, 2009 Hosting the nation's largest living memorial to an American author, the Willa Cather Foundation invites you to Red Cloud, Nebraska and into the exciting work of Willa Cather. Our five-day program will offer you a true immers...

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