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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 …
Posted: 05/04/2023
Last Updated: 07/12/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's … to support such a claim: Sharon O'Brien's influential psychobiography  Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice  and James … has transformed Cather studies.  For example, a new Cather biography, Benjamin Taylor’s Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Finding Aids

… undated Photograph PHO-62-006 Red Cloud High Commencement Class of 1895 unknown 1895 Photograph PHO-62-007 Roscoe … 1896 Photograph PHO-62-008 Roscoe Cather teaching 8th grade class unknown 1897 Clipping TEX-62-009 Judge Schaper … C.F. Cather Funk and Wagnalls Co. The Best of the World's Classics: Restricted to Prose,  vol. 1 1909 n/a Funk and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations from the Archives: The World of Willa Cather

… Annotations from the Archives: The World of Willa Cather Bennett's Book Helped Launch Cather Studies February 11, … the 75th year of The World of Willa Cather , written by Mildred Bennett, a school teacher, author, researcher, and … and interviews with Bennett's own unpublished memoir.  The Mildred Bennett Collection , comprised largely of Bennett's …
Posted: 02/09/2026
Last Updated: 02/26/2026

Virtual Author Series: Margot Kahn and Hillary Behrman

… Kenyon Review , and elsewhere. She is also the author of a biography,  Horses That Buck  (2008), which won the High …
Posted: 01/07/2026
Last Updated: 02/13/2026

Virtual Author Series: Brad Bigelow

… his new book, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts,  a biography that chronicles Virginia Faulkner’s career as a …
Posted: 12/10/2025
Last Updated: 02/06/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry Blackman Sell in a short article for the Chicago Daily News , Cather is "pronounced to rhyme with rather, if you please." … can love the mountains, but it's takes a soul to love the prairie"? Everyone really wants this to be true. Every so …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

2024 Writers Cohort Announced

… identity, ambition, and desire. She is the author of the biography Horses That Buck , winner of the High Plains Book …
Posted: 06/11/2024
Last Updated: 06/17/2025

NEA Big Read: My Ántonia

… Blind d’Arnault. It utilizes archival imagery and artist biography to inspire patrons to grapple with larger …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/29/2024

Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… respected Willa Cather scholar, is currently writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters …
Posted: 10/07/2024
Last Updated: 10/21/2024

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