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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, …
Posted: 07/01/2024
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer

… Prize-Winning Author Spring Conference Friday, Jun 6, 2025 | 7 - 8:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. … title selected by the National Endowment for the Arts' 2024-2025 Big Read program. Join us in the bookstore following …
Posted: 05/19/2025
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

Willa Cather & the Farm Novel Tradition

… nation grappling with rapid urbanization. In this lecture, Tracy Sanford Tucker, the director of Collections and Curation at the …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… her introduction for the 2023 Penguin Classics edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop, Fajardo-Anstine   writes, "The novel reminded me …
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 … Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … interpretation; a climate control system and a new roof and foundation. Enclosure of the attic space and extensive …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Red Cloud. The MLA International Bibliography lists almost 1300 publications on Cather and her works appearing since … and this was a decision that transformed her career. Building upon her solid foundation as an energetic … letters.  A Lost Lady, published in 1923, is something of tour de force example of the sort of fiction Cather called …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

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 … Siebert Cather.” 20 Dec 2006. O’Brien, Sharon. Chronology.  Early Novels and Stories : The Troll Garden, O Pioneers! the …
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

… 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 …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

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 …
Posted: 08/01/2017
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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