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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 … and personal papers, provides a one-of-a-kind window into early Cather studies, literary tourism, and 1950s museology … life of this rather elusive author, and the origins of her novels and stories. Image Jacks and Bennett During Mildred …
Posted: 02/09/2026
Last Updated: 02/26/2026

70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in Her Work … they must contend with.”  – Jane Smiley The Professor’s House and My Ántonia will share the spotlight at the … part of the NEA’s Big Read Initiative while The Professor’s House , Cather’s midlife masterpiece, turns one hundred. …
Posted: 07/01/2024
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

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, …
Posted: 05/19/2025
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

Willa Cather & the Farm Novel Tradition

… 15, 2025 | 1 - 2pm CT The Papillion Area Historical Society Portal School House 230 N. Jefferson Street Papillion , NE … Area Historical Society , and will take place in the Portal School next to Sump Memorial Library at 230 N. …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Jun 6 - Saturday, Jun 8, 2024 | All day Register Online Now ACCESS THE WEB APP DOWNLOAD THE SPRING CONFERENCE … the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery, and Travis Hencey's new exhibit, The Field, The Fire , located in the Burlington …
Posted: 09/21/2023
Last Updated: 06/06/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … will resume in March of 2024. Guests who book a tour in the early weeks of that month will have an opportunity to see … 150 Years of Willa Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Image George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic … publish there; it serialized her first novel,  Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site that would soon … set in Brownville, Nebraska, is published in the April 1897 issue of Home Monthly . Cather returns to Red …  — Cather’s first book, a collection of poems titled  April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

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 . …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023

50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… result, every newspaper in the country printed at least one item about Willa Cather. (Have you sent the Memorial a copy …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

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