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Willa Cather Biography
… publish there; it serialized her first novel, Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration
… Image Willa Cather wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett, c. … HERE Join us for this sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured … overview of her life and work will explore her turbulent biography and uniquely American voice. Sprinkled into the …
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 … Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather historic sites, the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie , and a quiet stay in the … the adaption of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Adams . …
Posted: 08/29/2019
Last Updated: 03/08/2024
Finding Aids
… Private Library No. 19 Aldrich, Mrs. Thomas Bailey Crowding Memories 1920 Christmas greetings to my dearest father, … Juvenal 1890 n/a Livy The History of Rome, Books XXI and XXII 1905 Elsie Margaret Cather Logan, John A. The Great … Library Number 44. Second sticker reads: W. Cather Jr. Winter, William Gray Days and Gold 1894 n/a Wister, Owen …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 02/17/2024
Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading
… Image Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather Special Events Thursday, Dec 7, 2023 | 7 - 8pm … , and Bellow’s There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction , also a New 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
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… #4: Death Comes for the Archbishop As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed … , and Bellow’s There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction , also a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag, Debriefing , was published by …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Discussion #3: The Professor's House As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed … , and Bellow’s There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction , also a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag, Debriefing , was published by …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 08/08/2023
Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather … fine clothes, the fascinating company. The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection contains even more evidence of … Nebraska in 1917, and in 1931, Cather was again the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton. …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023
Organization History
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) … noted: In dedicating this Memorial to Willa Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023