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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, … made.  Though Cather later asked for her second novel, O Pioneers! to be considered her first real attempt at a book, …
Posted: 07/15/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials … Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   … or consult their institution or publisher for assistance. Mildred Bennett Collection Date range:  1932-1989 Bulk …
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

Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short … Center, New Hampshire. Her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, selected her final resting place and designed her tombstone, … , and a large body of nonfiction, journalism, speeches, and letters.  Critical Biography Bibliography Honors & …
Posted: 05/04/2023
Last Updated: 07/12/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… 2023 too, it has sponsored celebratory Cather 150 events held all over the country—Los Angeles, New York, … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in … for the character Thea Kronborg in her next novel,  The Song of the Lark . Cather visits Nebraska.  1915  — Cather publishes  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… My Ántonia One of Ours One of Ours A Lost Lady A Lost Lady Lucy Gayheart Lucy Gayheart Death Comes for the Archbishop Death Comes for …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

…  1923 The Professor's House  1925 My Mortal Enemy  1926 Death Comes for the Archbishop  1927 Shadows on the Rock  1931 Lucy Gayheart …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of … in China (1949-1986)  AUTHOR: Qian Qing p. 27  TITLE: Kronborg as Orpheus: A Tragic Dimension of The Song of the … University p. 11  TITLE: Portraits of the Artist: Thea Kronborg and Margaret Laurence's Morag Gunn  AUTHOR: Clara …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… for the Archbishop (1927), Shadows on the Rock (1931), Lucy Gayheart (1935), and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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