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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Willa Cather: A Literary Life had each appeared in 1987; about that time too the era’s leading Cather critic, the … that transformed her career. Building upon her solid foundation as an energetic journalist in Lincoln and …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration
… ( O Pioneers!, My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , Death Comes for the Archbishop ) set a new standard …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/07/2023
National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month
… Image National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month March … widely recognized that writing poetry represented some of Willa Cather’s earliest literary endeavors. Even after … Cather’s poetry provides clues that help us to define her biography. While socially isolating, Cather fans should …
Posted: 03/30/2020
Last Updated: 04/01/2020
Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong
… , made a low key visit to Red Cloud and the National Willa Cather Center last week. Wong and Giamatti, who joined … for a weekend of events at Omaha's Film Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather historic sites, the Willa Cather … his stay, "and to get so close to the lovely folks in the town." Giamatti is best known for his movie roles …
Posted: 08/29/2019
Last Updated: 03/08/2024
Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related to the life and works of Pulitzer …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 02/17/2024
Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading
… biography, and criticism, and we are honored to welcome professors Melissa Homestead, Julie Olin-Ammentorp, and … in May 2020. His previous memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House , received the 2018 Los Angeles Times/Christopher … Willa Cather: The Critical Conversation (2020, Camden House). Her work on Cather has appeared in Great Plains …
Posted: 10/04/2023
Last Updated: 12/05/2023
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Image Image Benjamin Taylor Image Image "Chasing Bright Medusas" Special Events Thursday, Oct 19, 2023 | 7 - 8pm …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Image Image Benjamin Taylor Image Image "Chasing Bright Medusas" Discussion #3: The Professor's House Special Events …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 08/08/2023
Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… interesting dualities. She was intensely engaged with her small hometown, even as she became a traveler of the world; … answers. Old schoolmates, distant relatives, kindly people whom I had known in some part of the United States. . … to Houghton Mifflin's Alverda Van Tuyll, "In the first place, let me tell you how delighted I am that you get a …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023
Organization History
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of … used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small … museum, reflecting the settings for six of Cather’s twelve novels and many of her short stories. For the first …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023