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Alexander's Bridge

… Image Alexander's Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious engineer, …
Posted: 07/15/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023

Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View

… by visiting our website, or reaching out to archivist Tracy Sanford Tucker at ttucker@willacather.org . We would love to show you what's …
Posted: 01/02/2026
Last Updated: 01/21/2026

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Fisher New York Herald Tribune 1933 Clipping TX-50-1000-054 Review of  April Twilights Pittsburg Gazette 1903 Clipping …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Short Biography of Willa Cather

… of short fiction, two editions of her book of poetry,  April Twilights , and a large body of nonfiction, journalism, …
Posted: 05/04/2023
Last Updated: 07/12/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in  Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… her paternal grandparents, William and Caroline Cather. The house, called Willow Shade, is located in an area near Back … 1883 to 1884  — Willa Cather attends a one-room schoolhouse in the Catherton precinct of Webster County. She picks … and insurance downtown and rents a story-and-a-half frame house on 3rd and Cedar Streets. Built around 1879, the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… The Professor's House The Professor's House Alexander's Bridge Alexander's Bridge My Mortal Enemy My Mortal Enemy Shadows on the Rock …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

…  1927 Shadows on the Rock  1931 Lucy Gayheart  1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl  1940 Short Fiction The Troll Garden  1905 Youth and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Mountford  TITLE: Willa Cather Museum Dedication  Author: John G. Neihardt p. 1 Report of Museum Dedication and Spring … Interview in the Lincoln State Journal) p. 2  TITLE: O Pioneers! An Early Nebraska Review, August 13, 1913  AUTHOR: … Day of Issue p. 1  Willa Cather Centennial Festival--Events at UNL and Red Cloud p. 2  Notice of Mrs. Roscoe …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Shadows on the Rock (1931), Lucy Gayheart (1935), and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). Cather died from a cerebral hemorrhage on April …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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