Search Results
25 results found
Willa Cather Residency for Writers
… Image Willa Cather, circa 1926 Image Inaugural Willa Cather Residency … which she created the communities in half of her novels. In a nod to the long road that Willa Cather traveled … 4-18, 2026. All participants are expected to arrive no later than 6:00 PM on October 4 and depart no sooner than …
Posted:
Last Updated:
Short Biography of Willa Cather
… journalism, speeches, and letters. Critical Biography Bibliography Honors & Achievements Timeline …
Posted:
Last Updated:
Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Cather rented the home through 1904. Many of Cather’s books depict life in Red Cloud and Webster County during the … 150 Years of Willa Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop … be served throughout the day, and the National Willa Cather Bookstore will have an extensive offering of gifts and books …
Posted:
Last Updated:
Willa Cather Biography
… P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative … between sides multiple times). The Cathers, who had a sheep farm, were sympathetic to the Union and some of Cather's … removed to this place which seems otherworldly: "I had never before looked up at the sky where there was not a …
Posted:
Last Updated:
Willa Cather Timeline
… 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … later use this event in one of her most famous novels, My Antonia . 1882 — Red Cloud becomes a division point for the … a Jewish couple from Europe who allow her to borrow books from their personal library. Mrs. Wiener introduces …
Posted:
Last Updated:
50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … in Red Cloud on December 7, 1973. What resulted four years later was a single 8 cent stamp with Cather’s likeness. … she preached. Miss Cather (1873-1947) echoed in many of her novels the same theme—the spirit and courage of pioneer …
Posted:
Last Updated:
Cather Weekend on Governors Island
… events, and publications. We’ll be offering Willa Cather books and other merchandise as special giveaways. … all of Cather’s fiction. 3:30 p.m. – Selected Readings from My Ántonia Willa Cather’s My Ántonia (1918) is one of the … of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child …
Posted:
Last Updated:
Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… Miriam Mountford Title: Prototypes of Characters in My Ántonia Recognized at Spring Banquet AUTHOR: Victor P. Hass … S. Shannon, daughter of Roscoe Cather dies p. 11 First scholarly volumes to be produced p. 37 …
Posted:
Last Updated:
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 …
Posted:
Last Updated:
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 …
Posted:
Last Updated: