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Experience America’s Literary Legacy
… sites and sounds that changed American literature. Take a detour from the scramble of urbanity and absorb the rolling … inspired the Pulitzer Prize winner’s influential writings. LEARN MORE National Willa Cather Center A cultural oasis on … of cattle — or just the sound of absolutely nothing in the virtual center of the lower 48-states. MORE ABOUT THE …
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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
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … her brilliant young mind to imagine the whole world. Cather later referred to it as her “rose-bower,” and she occupied … 150 Years of Willa Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong
… , made a low key visit to Red Cloud and the National Willa Cather Center last week. Wong and Giamatti, who joined … Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather historic sites, the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie , and a quiet stay in the … the adaption of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Adams . …
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Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather
… and the critically acclaimed novels One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . In …
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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 … her novels of prairie pioneering, O Pioneers! and My Á ntonia , but there are a succession of other places found …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday
… and cemented the reputation her prairie-plains novels ( O Pioneers! [1913], The Song of the Lark [1915], and …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… move into town. Red Cloud’s population at the time is 2,500. Charles Cather opens an office selling farm loans and … of the Panic of 1893. Blind Boone, a well-known African American pianist, performs at the Red Cloud Opera House. … it is only a coincidence that passages in his book The Great Gatsby closely resemble a passage in Cather’s A Lost …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America
… States Purchase Tickets Produced in association with the Willa Cather Foundation, filmmaker Ken Burns hosts this sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most significant and treasured …
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Press Room
… Image Press Room We invite journalists, editors, bloggers, … YouTube @WillaCatherFdn (National Willa Cather Center) Images This selection of images is available to the the … image needs that you may have. Historic Sites & Misc. Image Galleries The Collections at the National Willa Cather …
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