"Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things."
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
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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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Rediscovering Serena’s Album

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.


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Registration for the Willa Cather Spring Conference is now open!

"Food and Drink in Willa Cather's Writing" takes place June 3-5,2010, in Red Cloud, Nebraska, and features Susan Meyer from Wellesley College as keynote speaker. Our biggest event of the year, The Willa Cather Spring Conference, is online now, and registration is underway! An amazing lineu...

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Coming Soon to Cather Web Site

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...

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Small Towns Big Dreams

"On my way East I broke my journey at Hastings, in Nebraska, and set off with an open buggy and a fairly good livery team to find the Cuzak farm. At a little past midday, I knew I must be nearing my destination. Set back on a swell of land at my right, I saw a wide farm-house, with a red ...

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Barbara and Kern Wisman of Jerusalem

Barbara and Kern Wisman of Jerusalem, Israel talk about their visit to the Willa Cather Foundation. For more information about Cather tours click here

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Call for Papers on Willa Cather: ALA 2010, May 27-30, San Francisco

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...

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