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Willa Cather Residency for Writers

… Image Willa Cather, circa 1926 Image Inaugural Willa Cather Residency Cohort Willa Cather Residency for … House—with its comfortable communal kitchen, dining, and living spaces—and a separate place to work. Residents will …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… literary legacy.  Cather died in 1947, and was laid to rest in the Old Burying Ground in Jaffrey Center, New … Her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, selected her final resting place and designed her tombstone, which features …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A National Historic … Prairie, care for priceless collections, and allow a living memorial to operate for the benefit of generations to …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … will change her birth year to 1876 and her name to “Willa” later.  Silas Garber is elected governor of Nebraska. 1874 … lost, will later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red Cloud becomes a division …
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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 … eventually became the scholarly journal, Willa Cather Review ) and issues of the informational  News from Cather …
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Cather Weekend on Governors Island

… – Nolan Park Governors Island , NY 10004 United States The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) is partnering with the Empire … the National Willa Cather Center, as well as our programs, events, and publications. We’ll be offering Willa Cather … all of Cather’s fiction. 3:30 p.m. – Selected Readings from My Ántonia Willa Cather’s My Ántonia (1918) is one of the …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 3  Also in this issue: Poem for Cather by Leonard Gilley, reprinted in 1966 Prairie Schooner p. 3  … TITLE: Word Music in "The Ancient People," Part IV of The Song of the Lark  AUTHOR: Stephen Tatum p. 25  …
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Ways of Reading: On the Road with Tim Youd's 100 Novels Project

… Image Ways of Reading: On the Road with Tim Youd's 100 Novels Project July 25, 2022 Artist Tim Youd spent much of … of the Los Angeles-based Artillery magazine, visited the Cather literary sites and prairie landscapes where Youd … would take Youd all over the world. Now, almost a decade later, I’m in Red Cloud, Nebraska, to watch Youd (pronounced …
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New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

… Image New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux August 21, … Beginning with a prologue locating Cather’s position, this volume of Cather Studies offers three sets of related …
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