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Annotations from the Archives: The World of Willa Cather

… Annotations from the Archives: The World of Willa Cather Bennett's Book Helped Launch Cather Studies February … for Bennett's book At that time, there were many people living who had been reading Cather's books as they appeared …
Posted: 02/09/2026
Last Updated: 02/26/2026

70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Jun 5 - Saturday, Jun 7, 2025 | All day CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The deadline to register … musical storytelling.   Attendees are also encouraged to visit, We're Still Here: American Indian Spirit in the …
Posted: 07/01/2024
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer

… Friday, Jun 6, 2025 | 7 - 8:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … Cultural Endowment. Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres , which was awarded the … Pulitzer Prize, The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck , Early Warning , and Golden Age , Perestroika in Paris , and, …
Posted: 05/19/2025
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

Willa Cather & the Farm Novel Tradition

… Papillion , NE 68046 United States REGISTER HERE Willa Cather's early novels depicting farm life explore both her memories of …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… her “library,” with her books labeled and sometimes numbered in the back room of her father’s office. As our … on Saturday, June 8th. Attendees are also encouraged to visit, Hommage: Willa Cather , on view at the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery, and Travis Hencey's new …
Posted: 09/21/2023
Last Updated: 06/06/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … home will be preserved as a cultural attraction for the learning and the enjoyment of future generations. “This …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

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 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center Image Willa Cather, 9, taken in Virginia … National Willa Cather Center.   In her discussion about the life and history of Willa Cather, Olsen will …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023

50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a … work of Willa Cather:  “‘There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as … graduation from the University of Nebraska, she worked on a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, newspaper, and later for a …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

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