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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 …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of Willa Cather 1873–1947 Willa Cather was born in … of nonfiction, journalism, speeches, and letters.  Critical Biography Bibliography Honors & Achievements Timeline …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … author’s 150th birthday. The site closed on August 15, 2022 to facilitate the first comprehensive … interpretation; a climate control system and a new roof and foundation. Enclosure of the attic space and extensive …
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Willa Cather Biography

… example, a new Cather biography, Benjamin Taylor’s Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather (2023) shows this … significant ways, they were a perfect pair—Knopf published  Youth and the Bright Medusa , a collection containing both …
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Willa Cather Timeline

Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871  — In Silas Garber’s dugout, …
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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 … Princeton. In 1944 she received the gold medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.” 50 Volunteers, 34 …
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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 … Saturday, August 19th 11:30 p.m. – Willa Cather’s Life in Letters When Willa Cather was nine years old, her family … series of April Twilights and Other Poems . 2:30 p.m. – Selected Readings from The Song of the Lark The Song of the …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents Table of Contents This Table of Contents for the Willa Cather Review was compiled by Virgil and Dolores …
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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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