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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

… . After the publication of her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge , Cather left the magazine to focus full-time on her …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about … Valley of her early childhood. Events took place across the country throughout 2023-2024 to honor and celebrate Willa …
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Willa Cather Biography

… George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic portrait … 1921. Rinehart-Marsden Studios. Today Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first … matriculation requirements.) Having just arrived from a small town, she took full advantage of the capital's …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … selling farm loans and insurance downtown and rents a story-and-a-half frame house on 3rd and Cedar Streets. Built … of the Panic of 1893. Blind Boone, a well-known African American pianist, performs at the Red Cloud Opera House. …
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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 … Following are excerpts of that process gleaned from past newsletters. [Scroll down to read what was entered into the … 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

… her own words. We begin with a curious young girl on the plains of Nebraska, embark on her quest to establish herself … and Other Poems . 2:30 p.m. – Selected Readings from The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark (1915) is the story of … century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… p. 2  Interest in Cather p. 2  Willa Cather Merit Badge Girl Scouts p. 3  President's Activities p. 3  Financial … Fulfilled  AUTHOR: Mildred R. Bennett p. 1  TITLE: Review: Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)  AUTHOR: Dorothy Canfield Fisher p. 3  …
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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 … made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. … shaping of the world of the early twentieth century and later into a singular modernism born of both inherited and …
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