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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder
… Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 7 - 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … for which he has always tried to find bodies." ~ Willa Cather, in a 1925 interview with Flora Merrill THIS EVENT IS … characters and evocative descriptions of the Nebraska prairie they inhabit. Critics characterize her work as …
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Experience America’s Literary Legacy
… Red Cloud, Nebraska is not just a destination. It’s a place where literature and culture merge with the pleasures … spot to pause and refresh or entirely regroup away from it all. Red Cloud is an oasis on the prairie — yet only a short … National Willa Cather Center where you can relax in our art gallery or bookstore or begin your tour experience. Our arts …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A National Historic … Prairie, care for priceless collections, and allow a living memorial to operate for the benefit of generations to …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong
… who joined filmmaker Alexander Payne for a weekend of events at Omaha's Film Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather … and shared that he was currently reading Cather's The Song of the Lark and had particularly enjoyed Death Comes for the …
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Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather
… evening of readings to celebrate 150 years of Willa Cather, one of the most significant and treasured American writers … essays, short stories, and the critically acclaimed novels One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's … to support such a claim: Sharon O'Brien's influential psychobiography Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice and James … has transformed Cather studies. For example, a new Cather biography, Benjamin Taylor’s Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday
… Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Poudre Libraries — … her prairie-plains novels ( O Pioneers! [1913], The Song of the Lark [1915], and especially My Ántonia [1918]) had …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… close friend. 1912 — Cather’s first novel, Alexander’s Bridge , appears in McClure’s as Alexander’s Masquerade . …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America
… Space, New York City • In Person & Livestreamed Special Events Wednesday, Sep 27, 2023 | 7 - 8:30pm Peter Jay Sharp … acclaimed novels One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . This special evening of short …
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Press Room
… life. Cather was the first American writer to use the Great Plains as a detailed setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the American … in Cather's work—in particular O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Ántonia (1918), One of Ours …
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