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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America
… with a singular voice in her body of poems, essays, short stories, and the critically acclaimed novels One of Ours , … Street ), David Strathairn ( Nomadland ), and more. Selected Shorts is produced by Symphony Space and broadcast … began in 1985 and enjoys sold-out performances to this day. Selected Shorts was conceived with a simple premise: take …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2023
Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Exterior of the restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Image Earliest image of the Willa … needed for her brilliant young mind to imagine the whole world. Cather later referred to it as her “rose-bower,” and …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 04/25/2024
Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … sites were offered at 11:00 a.m., and 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. World renowned author Willa Cather spent her formative years …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 04/03/2024
Finding Aids
… Cather, Wallace and Blanche Cather Ray, Grosvenor P. and Myrtle Bartlett Cather, and the Burlington & Missouri River … & Morgan 1947 Correspondence TEX-62-035 Note regarding gift Marsha Brockway 2012? Willard Crowell Collection Date … 1899 To Mother, March 21, 1900 W.S.C. Cather, Willa My Ántonia 1918 n/a Catallus Selected Poems of Catallus 1910 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 02/17/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… precluded by a proviso in Cather’s will. But The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (2013), edited by Andrew … an explosion, a pest" (Politics 7), listened to these stories and stockpiled the details, not knowing the use she … former appear as the Rosens in one of her best short stories "Old Mrs. Harris," and in My Ántonia Cather …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading
… National Willa Cather Center. Hear an excerpt from Taylor's new book, followed by what is sure to be an engaging talk … Times/Christopher Isherwood Prize and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice; his Proust: The Search was … York Times Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag, Debriefing , was published by …
Posted: 10/04/2023
Last Updated: 12/05/2023
Historic Sites
… to sixteen. The house is described in detail in the short stories “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years,” and … Cather’s attic bedroom retains the wallpaper she selected while she worked in Dr. Henry Cook's drugstore. In …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Bibliography
… Short Fiction, 1892-1912 1965 Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929 … in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters 1986 The Selected Letters of Willa Cather 2013 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Legends & Stories: The Changing Ecology of the Great Plains
… Cather and other topics and is co-editor of the book The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (Knopf, 2013), and the …
Posted: 02/08/2019
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… family struggled to survive, was the author of hundreds of stories and poems, the proceeds of which helped to keep the … Collection Kate M. Cleary: a Literary Biography with Selected Works , by Susanne George-Bloomfield …
Posted: 08/17/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023