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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 … provides a one-of-a-kind window into early Cather studies, literary tourism, and 1950s museology that you'd be …
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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in … Jun 5 - Saturday, Jun 7, 2025 | All day CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … the Unmade Place , on view at the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery. Funding was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the …
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Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer

… Jun 6, 2025 | 7 - 8:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States We … Prize winner Jane Smiley! Her talk on "Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer" will mark the … and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center …
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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

… Willa Cather , on view at the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery, and Travis Hencey's new exhibit, The Field, The … Book Award. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2021 recipient of the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the … and varied communities of readers. Cather’s literary works detail numerous acts of reading, and she herself was an avid …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … her brilliant young mind to imagine the whole world. Cather later referred to it as her “rose-bower,” and she occupied … 150 Years of Willa Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the …
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Willa Cather Biography

… publish there; it serialized her first novel,  Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Cloud are officially organized. 1872  — Charles Cather and Mary Virginia Boak marry on December 5 at the home of the … poems titled  April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion Edith Lewis. 1905  — Cather’s first … and muckraking journals. 1907  —  The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science  is …
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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

… stamp September 6, 2023 In 1969, the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors pursued a series of postage … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of … F. Wackerla employed 34 extra workers to help his regular staff handle the 600,000 First Day of Issue stamps. Ten Red …
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