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Finding Aids

… Fisher New York Herald Tribune 1933 Clipping TX-50-1000-054 Review of  April Twilights Pittsburg Gazette 1903 Clipping … Related Materials: The NWCC also holds a number of bound volumes of McClure’s Magazine , Ladies Home Journal , and … Willa Cather stamp, Cather 100th Birthday newspaper, WCPM newsletter (1987), and letters and documents surrounding …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 09/02/2025

National Willa Cather Center

… years. She once said, "I was always being pulled back into Nebraska.” You will be, too. About the National Willa Cather … Located in Cather’s childhood hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, the Center provides almost 20,000 square feet of … museum film narrated by Ken Burns (Supported in part by the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation and Vintage …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2025

Willa Cather Biography

… is one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. Seen as a regional … of American literary Modernism has only increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition … Sebastian in  Lucy Gayheart , Cather was herself "nearing fifty" (78) and after her own struggle with  One of Ours …
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 … turned down speaking engagements, lectures, and even club appearances, but she was urged by her publisher, Alfred … women. Alfred says one can't refuse to take a medal, no matter how little one wants it." To do so, she tells friend …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023

Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; … collections contain a number of photos of her reading to children, and of other family members reading. It is clear … the family's involvement with the Auld Library, and from Willa's own writing, just how much the Cather family valued …
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 of … literature and Red Cloud’s unique potential to become a living museum, reflecting the settings for six of Cather’s …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Virtual Author Series: Dr. Rebecca Faber

… Opera House Thursday, Nov 4, 2021 | 7pm We are excited to welcome Dr. Rebecca Faber to talk about her book, One Small Photo , a collection of poetry and one short story that was written to raise awareness about veterans' mental health. Dr. Faber will also share …
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 Education, she … I would love to know more about she and Lewis’s day-to-day living: Willa Cather’s wine journal or a list of the books …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022

Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… and helping other employees with various tasks like mail ordering, stocking books, and even watering flowers.  …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 08/17/2021

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