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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States Register Online Now "The type of writer we have been talking …
Posted: 08/18/2025
Last Updated: 08/26/2026

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 the prairie … events and performances throughout the year. Our Special Collections & Archives hold some of the priceless treasures …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A National Historic … needed for her brilliant young mind to imagine the whole world. Cather later referred to it as her “rose-bower,” and …
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

… 2023 too, it has sponsored celebratory Cather 150 events held all over the country—Los Angeles, New York, … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Poudre Libraries — … her prairie-plains novels ( O Pioneers!  [1913],  The Song of the Lark  [1915], and especially  My Ántonia  [1918]) had …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/26/2023

Willa Cather Timeline

… miles by team and wagon to the precinct of Catherton. They settle at the homestead of William and Caroline Cather. … oration in the Red Cloud Opera House. One of only three members in her class, Cather is the only student not … need, sends $50 to Annie Sadilek Pavelka to be used for a gift. Annie uses the money to pay for taxes on her farm …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… Space, New York City • In Person & Livestreamed Special Events Wednesday, Sep 27, 2023 | 7 - 8:30pm Peter Jay Sharp … acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . This special evening of short …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2023

Press Room

… for the latest newsworthy information about our activities, events, and announcements. Please browse the sub-sections … in Cather's work—in particular  O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My Ántonia  (1918),  One of Ours  (1922),  A …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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