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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in … Featured Speaker 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, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer
… Author Spring Conference Friday, Jun 6, 2025 | 7 - 8:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street … Prize winner Jane Smiley! Her talk on "Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer" will mark the conclusion …
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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 … of the novel Woman of Light and the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina and Corina , a finalist for the …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most …
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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 …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site that would soon become the …
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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 … Following are excerpts of that process gleaned from past newsletters. [Scroll down to read what was entered into the … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of …
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Cather Weekend on Governors Island
… Park Governors Island , NY 10004 United States The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) is partnering with the Empire State … nine years old, her family moved from Virginia to Nebraska. Early years in Webster County and in Red Cloud did much to … Herself Born Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she made a mark as a …
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