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Willa Cather Residency for Writers

… that Willa Cather traveled before she became free to focus on her own writing—a road that included freelancing, … plays, and screenplays.  For example, emerging writers must not have published a novel-length work at the time of … October 5-19, 2025: Residency in Red Cloud Questions? Contact  residency@willacather.org . Past Cohorts 2023 …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… for My Ántonia , Cather received the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . She won the William Dean Howells Medal for Death … selected her final resting place and designed her tombstone, which features these memorable words from My Ántonia : …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about … and extensive repairs to the windows and doors sealed the building envelope, which will limit exposure to the elements …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … and commentators have increasingly identified Cather as among the most significant canonical American writers, one … recent volumes are Janis P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in … of Annie Sadilek, commits suicide and is buried near a crossroads. Cather, on whom almost nothing was lost, will … Poems  is released.  A Lost Lady , a novel based in part on events in the lives of Silas Garber and his wife Lyra …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… the audience were relatives of Willa Cather, Memorial Board members, and postmasters from many other cities. The Fall … Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation, members of the Nebraska Congressional delegation, other … Before her name became established in the east. She had become known as one of Nebraska’s leading newspaper women …
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Cather Weekend on Governors Island

… her own words. We begin with a curious young girl on the plains of Nebraska, embark on her quest to establish herself … and Other Poems . 2:30 p.m. – Selected Readings from The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark (1915) is the story of … century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Visitors p. 1  Staff Activities p. 1  Publications p. 2  Gifts and Mail Bag p. 2  Future Plans p. 2  … Summer 1975  LITERARY ISSUE Editor: Bernice Slote  TITLE: Three Chautauqua Articles by Willa Cather p. 1  "The Fourth … from Cather's "Eric" p. 3  Cather Memorial Prairie is Setting for Workshop p. 4  …
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Ways of Reading: On the Road with Tim Youd's 100 Novels Project

… Image Ways of Reading: On the Road with Tim Youd's 100 Novels Project July 25, 2022 Artist Tim Youd spent much of … of the Los Angeles-based Artillery magazine, visited the Cather literary sites and prairie landscapes where Youd … would take Youd all over the world. Now, almost a decade later, I’m in Red Cloud, Nebraska, to watch Youd (pronounced …
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New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

… Image New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux August … made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. … shaping of the world of the early twentieth century and later into a singular modernism born of both inherited and …
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