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Annotations from the Archives: The World of Willa Cather

… February 11, 2026 This month, author Will Fellows reminds us that February marks an important anniversary: the 75th year of The World of Willa Cather , written by Mildred Bennett, a school teacher, author, researcher, and … and '30s, and many of these readers were eager to know more about the life of this rather elusive author, and the …
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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in Her Work Spring Conference Thursday, Jun 5 - Saturday, Jun 7, … and being changed by the difficulties and the beauties of the world they must contend with.”  – Jane Smiley The … The conference will begin Thursday, June 5th with a plenary talk about Cather and Mesa Verde by interpretive ranger Ann …
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Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer

… Friday, Jun 6, 2025 | 7 - 8:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … Cultural Endowment. Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres , which was awarded the … Pulitzer Prize, The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck , Early Warning , and Golden Age , Perestroika in Paris , and, …
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Willa Cather & the Farm Novel Tradition

… Papillion , NE 68046 United States REGISTER HERE Willa Cather's early novels depicting farm life explore both her memories of …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather … pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age, she established her “library,” with her books … areas: Representations of readers and reading in Cather’s novels and short stories.   How readers navigate challenging …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… virtual book launch and reading of Benjamin Taylor’s Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather (at 7:00 p.m. CT). Birthday …
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Willa Cather Biography

… was as good as his word, since Cather's second book,  The Troll Garden , a collection of stories, appeared from McClure, … containing both new stories and others revised from  The Troll Garden , in 1920. It was followed by  One of Ours , a …
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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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Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center Image Willa Cather, 9, taken in Virginia … history of Willa Cather, Olsen will detail how the writer’s early years in Frederick County, Virginia, and formative years in Nebraska influenced the novels   Sapphira and the Slave Girl   and   My Ántonia . …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … eventually became the scholarly journal, Willa Cather Review ) and issues of the informational  News from Cather …
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