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71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Romney was also featured in The Booksellers, a documentary about the rare book trade in New York that premiered at the … experience and knowledge in captivating talks. Learn more about Rebecca Romney Sponsorship Benefits Spring Conference … year! Sponsor the event Schedule Thursday, June 4 1:00 PM Welcome & Opening Plenary with Heather Althoff 2:15 PM …
Posted: 08/20/2025
Last Updated: 03/30/2026

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 … 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

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

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 …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather … pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age, she established her “library,” with her books … areas: Representations of readers and reading in Cather’s novels and short stories.   How readers navigate challenging …
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

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … While the reading and understanding of Cather's twelve novels and various other works are the primary attraction, … unconscious. It must, indeed, be a way of living" (78). The Early Years, 1873-1890 Cather was born in Back Creek Valley, …
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

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