Search Results

24 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, 2025. 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

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short … her family moved to rural Webster County, Nebraska, and later to the town of Red Cloud, where she lived until … personal and cultural environments. While six of Cather’s novels were inspired by her Nebraska experiences, her …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Cather house is vividly described in Cather's novel,  The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best … is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. Events took place across the country throughout 2023-2024 to …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a special issue of  Modern Fiction Studies  on Cather's work. This critical interest in Cather …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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 …
Posted:
Last Updated:

50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… to Canada and the southwest for Shadows on the Rock and Death Comes for the Archbishop . Upon graduation from the University of …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Cather Weekend on Governors Island

… Park Governors Island , NY 10004 United States The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) is partnering with the Empire State … in Pittsburgh and New York, and listen as she later reflects on all her worldly success. 1:30 p.m. – Willa … Herself Born Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she made a mark as a …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … Miriam Mountford  Aims of the WCPM p. 1  Staff p. 1  Museum News and Donors p. 1  Interesting Visitors p. 2  Nebraska … p. 39  1986 Prairie Workshop p. 41  Cather posthumously inducted into National Cowgirl Hall of Fame and Western …
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: