"The feeling of the rain on you is sweet. It seems to bring feelings you had when you were a baby. It carries you back into the dark, before you were born."
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.
In 1888, a teenager signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” made a memorable entry in a friendship album owned by her schoolmate Serena White. And Willa Cather’s radiantly confident entry in Mental Portraits is only one of the jewels in its pages. Thanks to the generosity of Serena’s family, you can discover for yourself the treasures in it pages, in this first-ever presentation of Serena’s album in its entirety.
NET Television interviewed more than a dozen Cather scholars for the American Masters TV special Willa Cather—The Road is All. Highlights from these interviews will be coming soon to the Cather Web Site, including: · Pulitzer Prize winning historian, David McCullough, · New Yorker c...
The Willa Cather Foundation is now seeking 20-minute papers for presentation in two panels devoted specifically to Cather scholarship at the American Literature Association meeting in San Francisco, May 27-30, 2010. Topics: We seek the best and most innovative of ongoing Cather scholarship...
The 2010 Willa Cather Spring Conference, to be held June 3-5, will offer three days of events on the fresh topic of food and drink in Willa Cather's writing, based in Cather's "home town" of Red Cloud and the surrounding countryside. The conference will be held in Red Cloud and will open o...
Willa Cather taught in a writers' workshop in 1922, at Middlebury College, while working on her novel A Lost Lady. Upon the completion of her five-session course, her students saluted her with a witless poem: "Oh Miss Cather, when we gather/ For your talks so wise and clear/ Now you'r...
