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Alexander's Bridge

… Image Alexander's Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious engineer, …
Posted: 07/15/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023

Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of Willa Cather 1873–1947 Willa Cather was born in Back Creek … Quebec, and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, among others. Cather’s literature found national and international …
Posted: 05/04/2023
Last Updated: 11/12/2026

Finding Aids

… with much Love, Willie October 1st, 1915 No dust jacket Youth and the Bright Medusa BK-50-309 Willa Cather 1920 1st trade Willa Sibert …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View

… Greenwich Village, by Lew Ney (born Luther Emanuel Widen, 1886-1963), circa 1925. Annotations from the Archives: New Year, … work and instead was finishing up proofreading Alexander's Bridge and beginning a new novel, which would become O …
Posted: 01/02/2026
Last Updated: 01/21/2026

Willa Cather Biography

… in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, Morrison.” Yes, though Cather deserves to precede Hemingway on this list. Concluding her fine study of Willa … Cather. On April 24, 1947, Cather died from cancer. A private funeral was held in New York, and a memorial service …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … Gere, Cather visits Brownville, Nebraska. A feature story about Brownville titled "The Old River Metropolis" was … Lyra Garber, receives serial publication in  Century  at about the same time. In May, Cather receives the Pulitzer …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… Book Club Resources The National Willa Cather Center can provide materials for your book club or … your book club pick amongst the grasses of our Willa Cather Memorial Prairie . Stay in the Cather family’s Second Home …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

… Image Bibliography The Writings of Willa Cather   Novels Alexander's Bridge  1912 O Pioneers! … First Principles and Critical Statements   1967 The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902  1970 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 2.1  Spring 1958  Editor: Mildred R. Bennett  Officers and Board … Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … Lithograph by Grant Reynard for Mildred R. Bennett p. 23  1982 Spring Conference p. 24  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Image Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published January 10, 2012 Fragments from Willa Cather’s Lost Work Published for the First Time At her death … sites related to Cather’s life and work, a 608-acre native prairie, and manages six historic sites owned by the …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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