"A book is made with one's own flesh and blood of years. It is cremated youth. It is all yours-no one gave it to you."
-Personal interview
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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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The Opera House Announces its 10th Season of Events!

The Red Cloud Opera House is pleased to announce its 10th season of events in 2012! Many of the most popular performers since the re-opening of the facility in 2003, as well as some new additions will be highlighted in programs of various genres including music, exhibits, humanities prese...

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"Hard Punishments": Fragments of a Lost Work

At her death in 1947, Willa Cather was working on a story -- or perhaps a novel -- set in medieval Avignon titled "Hard Punishments." By all surviving accounts, the writing Cather had completed was destroyed upon her death, the only known exception being a short fragment owned by the Unive...

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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge

The Willa Cather Foundation is excited to promote continued reading of Cather's novels by encouraging participation in the Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge. To take part in the challenge, simply read all twelve of Willa Cather's novels in order of their publication, one per month, from ...

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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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