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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 of a literary …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … tours—including of the Childhood Home—and a live streamed virtual book launch and reading of Benjamin Taylor’s Chasing …
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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
… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
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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 …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — … many immigrants in the region and listening to their stories. 1884 — Willa Cather and her family move into town. … depressing stay in Red Cloud, Cather accepts a job in Pittsburgh as the editor of the Home Monthly . She begins …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America
… and the critically acclaimed novels One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . This …
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Press Room
… universal themes—and elevated them to a national and international readership (while also elevating Nebraska in … the annual Willa Cather Spring Conferences and biennial International Cather Seminars , which aim to foster appreciation and scholarship …
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Cather Weekend on Governors Island
… the National Willa Cather Center, as well as our programs, events, and publications. We’ll be offering Willa Cather … 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 an artist’s …
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