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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … its stabilization and preservation. In October 2025, she donated the birthplace property to Willa Cather's Virginia, … contribute to the community at large.”  The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… She joins Ponca Chief Standing Bear, installed in 2019, as one of two new sculptures that represent Nebraska. The … in the centenary year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska … incorporated. These include a turquoise jacket that was a gift to Cather from her editors, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… and institutional affiliation, should be submitted to Rachel Olsen, Director of Education and Engagement, via the 2024 … programming to our audiences. Questions may be directed to Rachel Olsen or Sarah Clere and Kelsey Squire, Academic …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about … restoration in more than fifty years.  A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood … Willa Cather Bookstore will have an extensive offering of gifts and books at 15% off. Visitors on tour in December …
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Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold

… Spring Conference Thursday, Jun 6, 2024 | 7 - 8pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 United …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … on December 7, 1873, the eldest of an eventual seven children raised by Charles and Mary Virginia Cather. Cathers had been in the area since the 1700s, and Back …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Gere, Cather visits Brownville, Nebraska. A feature story about Brownville titled "The Old River Metropolis" was … graduates from the University of Nebraska and joins the staff of the  Courier . While still working for the  … House. (It would not reopen until after the Willa Cather Foundation begins its restoration efforts beginning in 1991 …
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63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… May 31, 2018 | 12am - Saturday, Jun 2, 2018 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… p. 1  "Nethersole's Carmen" p. 2  "John Drew in 'Rosemary'" p. 2  "Mansfield's 'Shylock"' p. 3  TITLE: O … The Professor's House: An Early Source  AUTHOR: Bruce P. Baker II p. 13  Other item-in this issue: Plans underway for … by Joel Geyer) p. 4  Sherman Exhibit at Depot (exhibit of Life Magazine photographer David Sherman) p. 4  Death Notice …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… NE Oct 19 — Willa Cather, Wales, Wymore, and the World , Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre, Wymore, NE: 2:00 p.m. CT, … Cultural Park , Tivoli, NY Oct 22 — Willa Cather: Life & Literature , 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET • Explore the intersections …
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