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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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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… Image This event is SOLD OUT! Special Events Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 6 - 7:15pm Saturday, Oct 18, … 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

… Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour … Cather house is vividly described in Cather's novel,  The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong

… , and a quiet stay in the Cather Second Home guest house.  "My mother was a high school English teacher," Giamatti said. " My Ántonia was something she taught a lot, and so Cather was …
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Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather

… One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . In partnership with the Ames Writers Collective …
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Willa Cather Biography

… increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen … periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa … It would be followed in 1918 with the more personal  My Ántonia  where the narrative proper begins with the very …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events Thursday, Nov … Fort Collins , CO 80526 United States LEARN MORE Join us for birthday cake and a free talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, … We are in the midst of the centenaries of these books and about to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Cather’s birth. …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… paternal grandparents, William and Caroline Cather. The house, called Willow Shade, is located in an area near Back … Gere, Cather visits Brownville, Nebraska. A feature story about Brownville titled "The Old River Metropolis" was … House. (It would not reopen until after the Willa Cather Foundation begins its restoration efforts beginning in 1991 …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . This special evening of short fiction in …
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Press Room

… Red Cloud through the ongoing efforts of the  Willa Cather Foundation  and their  National Willa Cather Center . Media … and study center owned and operated by the Willa Cather Foundation. Founded in 1955, the Willa Cather Foundation … , Rissell Ventura, NTV ABC, May 28, 2022 Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a 501(c)(3) …
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