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Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… inspired the Pulitzer Prize winner’s influential writings. LEARN MORE National Willa Cather Center A cultural oasis on … events and performances throughout the year. Our Special Collections & Archives hold some of the priceless treasures … items and welcomes authors for book talks and signings. LEARN MORE Hotel Garber Your Boutique Retreat Nestled in …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 7 - 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … for which he has always tried to find bodies." ~ Willa Cather, in a 1925 interview with Flora Merrill THIS EVENT IS … characters and evocative descriptions of the Nebraska prairie they inhabit. Critics characterize her work as …
Posted: 08/18/2025
Last Updated: 10/14/2025

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour … On December 7, Cather’s 150th birthday will be fêted with guided holiday tours—including of the Childhood Home—and a …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

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 …
Posted: 08/29/2019
Last Updated: 03/08/2024

Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather

… the Ames Writers Collective and Ames Public Library Special Events Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024 | 7 - 8pm Ames Public Library … acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . In partnership with the Ames …
Posted: 01/04/2024
Last Updated: 02/05/2024

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 …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… [1913],  The Song of the Lark  [1915], and especially  My Ántonia  [1918]) had established the decade before. By …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/26/2023

Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … not proclaimed as being bound for lofty things by the local newspaper. Only sixteen years old, Cather enrolls at the … by Knopf. 1936  — Knopf publishes Cather’s only book of essays,  Not Under Forty . In the book’s introduction, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT Image Cather at 150 Symphony Space, New York City • In Person & Livestreamed Special Events … 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 . This special evening of short fiction in …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2023

Press Room

… public to visit our virtual Press Room often for the latest newsworthy information about our activities, events, and announcements. Please … that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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