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Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights

… from the Archive: April Twilights April 8, 2025 Though Willa Cather is known worldwide as a novelist, her first published … published seven of her poems in the Home Monthly , and sold others to national publications like Lippincott’s , Harper’s …
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Finding Aids

… like letters, clothing, jewelry, artwork, manuscripts, address books, journals, and sales ledgers for her novels, as … George Smith   Clipping TX-50-1000-050 "The Diamond Mine,"  McClure's Willa Cather 1916 Clipping TX-50-1000-051 Willa … 1911 For Bessie from Willa Stanley, Sir Henry Morton The Autobiography of Henry M. Stanley 1909 To the __________ …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… the 100th anniversary of her Pulitzer Prize for  One of Ours , as well as publication centenaries of  A Lost Lady … matching funds provided by the  Willa Cather Foundation’s  Campaign for the Future .  Book clubs and teachers around the country are …
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Willa Cather Biography

… the country—Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, among many other locations. Beginning in the 1980s, International Willa … for Webster County, Nebraska, northwest of Red Cloud. In April 1883, Cather moved with her extended family—mother, … was then concentrating on poetry—her first book,  April Twilights , appeared from a vanity press in 1903. It was …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United … other men file homestead claims near a site that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871  — In Silas … uncle and aunt of Willa Cather) stake a homestead on the Divide, a broad stretch of land between the Little Blue and …
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Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… well as the publication centenaries for  A Lost Lady  and  April Twilights and Other Poems.  The celebration will include short readings …
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The Bel Canto Duo: Four Cather Tableaux

… A Lost Lady , "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," April Twilights and Other Poems, and One of Ours , publications that defined …
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68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Jun 1, 2023 | 9am - Saturday, Jun 3, 2023 | 9pm National Willa Cather Center 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … Media at UC Santa Cruz, where she won the Excellence in Teaching Award. The Passing Show Join panelists Molly Rozum, … music features a wide variety of selections from original works, to arrangements of classical compositions and …
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Bibliography

… Comes for the Archbishop  1927 Shadows on the Rock  1931 Lucy Gayheart  1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl  1940 Short …
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Cather Weekend on Governors Island

… as special giveaways. Information on a self-guided walking tour of Cather’s New York City will also be available … pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write …
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