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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… to register was May 25. Please see the schedule below for events that are free and open to the public. Download the … encouraged. Abstracts, along with a short bio, your contact information and institutional affiliation, should be …
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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 conclusion of …
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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. … and Creative Writing. Her passions for poetry, nature, and music drive her to create a better world for herself and … and the presence of reading and readers within Cather’s fiction and letters. The directors invite papers on a …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn … The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most popular writings, …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … with the best in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, … Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis (2021) . Debates among close readers of Cather …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas … lost, will later use this event in one of her most famous novels, My Antonia . 1882 — Red Cloud becomes a division … many immigrants in the region and listening to their stories. 1884 — Willa Cather and her family move into town. …
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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 … she preached. Miss Cather (1873-1947) echoed in many of her novels the same theme—the spirit and courage of pioneer … Cather Foundation? Enjoy browsing past issues HERE (this early Willa Cather Foundation Newsletter eventually became …
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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 … in Pittsburgh and New York, and listen as she later reflects on all her worldly success. 1:30 p.m. – Willa … 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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