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Willa Cather Residency for Writers
Image Willa Cather, circa 1926 Image Inaugural Willa Cather Residency Cohort Willa Cather Residency for Writers About the Program The Willa Cather Residency for Writers was created in 2023 to commemorate the 150th year of Cather’s birth and to provide a …
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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 …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… moved to Nebraska from Virginia in 1883. Her final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. …
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Willa Cather Biography
… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… it is only a coincidence that passages in his book The Great Gatsby closely resemble a passage in Cather’s A Lost Lady … stipulates this in her will. 1935 — In the midst of the Great Depression, Cather, who is used to helping her friends …
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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 … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of …
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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 …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… are listed with the corresponding issue in PDF format. Summer 1957 to Current 1.1 Summer 1957 FIRST ISSUE … of Grace AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13 John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15 WCPM announces 1985 trip … Red Cloud: Willa Cather's Window to the World June 7-11, 2010 P. 51 Prairie Writers' Workshop July 2010 p. 51 …
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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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