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Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… events and performances throughout the year. Our Special Collections & Archives hold some of the priceless treasures of a literary …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States "The type of writer we have been talking about has a brain like Limbo, … into novels and short stories such as My Ántonia , The Song of the Lark , "The Sculptor's Funeral," and "The Affair at Grover …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home … Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong

… who joined filmmaker Alexander Payne for a weekend of events at Omaha's Film Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather … and shared that he was currently reading Cather's  The Song of the Lark and had particularly enjoyed  Death Comes for the …
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Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather

… American West with a singular voice in her body of poems, essays, short stories, and the critically acclaimed novels  … One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . In partnership with the Ames Writers Collective … Willa Cather Center, readers will be reacquainted, and new readers will be introduced to Cather's body of work. …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … performances, wrote criticism for concerts and the dramatic arts for  Pittsburgh Daily Leader , sent some of the same … Solved: Willa Cather's Violent Self-Construction."      Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather. Ed. Joesph R. Urgo and …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… Image Willa Cather, c. 1912 Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … miles by team and wagon to the precinct of Catherton. They settle at the homestead of William and Caroline Cather. … a Jewish couple from Europe who allow her to borrow books from their personal library. Mrs. Wiener introduces …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… Image A special and collaborative evening of celebration! Image Image Image THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2023 … acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . This special evening of short …
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Press Room

… life. Cather was the first American writer to use the Great Plains as a detailed setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the American … in Cather's work—in particular  O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My Ántonia  (1918),  One of Ours …
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