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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… in the centenary year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska … .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career … for Statuary Hall, and I'm thrilled that Nebraska will finally have a literary heroine representing our state in …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather … duty." We look forward to hearing more from Fajardo-Anstine about the readerly imagination that Cather's work inspires.  … Arts Council. His work can be found in  Rattle, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner , and in hundreds of other …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … in more than fifty years.  A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood Home was … historic sites and landscapes related to any other American writer. While Cather moved away from Nebraska in …
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Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold

… Conference Thursday, Jun 6, 2024 | 7 - 8pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … of the novel Woman of Light and the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina & Corina , a finalist for the …
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Willa Cather Biography

… by singularities. When Philip Roth died in 2018, New Yorker editor David Remnick held that “he was in … editions has been Cather Studies , gatherings of critical essays by various hands, now in its sixteenth volume. Both … periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa …
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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th approaches, her birth … who, toward the end of her life, struggled to write the story of her home state.  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … not proclaimed as being bound for lofty things by the local newspaper. Only sixteen years old, Cather enrolls at the … by Knopf. 1936  — Knopf publishes Cather’s only book of essays,  Not Under Forty . In the book’s introduction, …
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63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Nina McConigley  is the author of the story collection Cowboys and East Indians , which won the 2014 PEN Open Book Award and a High …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… p. 1  Staff p. 1  Museum News and Donors p. 1  Interesting Visitors p. 2  Nebraska Activities and Publications p. 2  … 2.1  Spring 1958  Editor: Mildred R. Bennett  Officers and Board of Governors p. 1  Staff … Financial Report p. 2  1971 Spring Conference p. 3  Red Cloud's 100th Birthday p. 4  …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

…  at The Mount , Lenox, MA: 5:30 p.m. ET. The second of two readings of Cather's fiction on the terrace of Edith … Director of Education & Engagement, will present  "Willa on Wheels: Cather's Characters Travel from Page to Stage"  on … Libraries, Weymouth, MA Oct 29 — Willa Cather and Material Culture Exhibit Opening Reception & Willa Cather Statue …
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