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The Willa Cather Foundation
… The Willa Cather Foundation—formerly the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial—is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization … writers; Organization of an annual residency program for a small cohort of writers; Curation of exhibits featuring … Cather. Inclusion & Belonging Inclusion is about each one of us coming together and feeling a sense of belonging …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/08/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … Cather critic, the late Susan J. Rosowski, published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the … or fifteen years ago I was one of the unfortunate women, selected by a distinguished committee, who appeared in full … was a correspondence that was very burdensome. Hundreds of letters poured in upon me, and a great many of them required …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023
Annotations from the Archives: The Library
… local organizations or simply had to purchase their own small selection of reading materials. In 1913, the new Red Cloud YMCA created a library in one of its rooms, with material donated by the P.E.O. club, … It's unclear what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023
Organization History
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group … intertwined with Cather’s fictional worlds. Bennett’s 1951 biography The World of Willa Cather is still widely used by scholars as a valuable …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
National Willa Cather Center
… Image National Willa Cather Center Walk in Her Footsteps. Stay in Her Town. Let … point for all aspects of your day trip or a more extended visit to Red Cloud, Nebraska . Historic Red Cloud is home … Red Cloud also offers cultural amenities, comfortable lodging (including where Cather herself once slept), …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Virtual Author Series: Dr. Rebecca Faber
… to welcome Dr. Rebecca Faber to talk about her book, One Small Photo , a collection of poetry and one short story that was …
Posted: 07/09/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… October 30, 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means … I don’t think she would want “her things” on display or her biography used to parse her writing. But I do recognize that …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022
Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns
… fixing any errors. Currently, I’m reviewing the archive’s photo collection and then digitizing them for future use. … are, unfortunately, missing. But there are some really good ones (with Beauty and the Beast costumes and elephants … I wasn’t walking with my grandparents). They lived in the small town of West Point, so I was already familiar with …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 08/17/2021