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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

…  – Jane Smiley The Professor’s House and My Ántonia will share the spotlight at the forthcoming Willa Cather Spring … on Saturday, June 7th. Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses will share selections from their stage musical adaptation of … Age , Perestroika in Paris , and, most recently, Lucky . She is also the author of several works of nonfiction and …
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19th International Willa Cather Seminar

… Seminar invites proposals for papers on Cather’s relationship to region, broadly construed, and especially papers … and the Rustbelt Literary regionalism: Cather’s relationship to earlier literary regionalism and to regional … to Cather’s work are encouraged to make proposals. Scholarships will be available for select student presenters from …
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2025 Willa Cather Residency Cohort Announced

… Image 2025 Willa Cather Residency Cohort Announced Cohort in Residence October 5-19 June 17, 2025 The National Willa Cather Center is pleased to announce members of the … in  Best Microfiction ,  SmokeLong Quarterly ,  Jellyfish Review ,  Pulp Literature , and others. She holds an MFA …
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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy April 9, 2025 RED CLOUD, NE—The National Willa Cather Center celebrated the long-awaited soft opening …
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"Willa Cather and the Counterculture" - Registration Closed

… the best of its historic and arts offerings, while learning about Cather’s time in New Mexico. We’ll discuss and share from … who had his own vision of the counterculture lifestyle. “Willa Cather and the Counterculture” explores Cather’s …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short … language, and sensitive explorations of place. Her life and work still inspire insightful scholarly analysis. … her formative Nebraska experiences into an international literary legacy.  Cather died in 1947, and was laid to rest …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … She was a self-made woman who spent most of her adult life living and working in New York City. Among other narratives, …
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Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold

… Conference Thursday, Jun 6, 2024 | 7 - 8pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … She was both a regional writer and an international literary superstar; her novels and stories transported …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Willa Cather: A Literary Life  had each appeared in 1987; about that time too the era’s leading Cather critic, the … and extended into The Complete Letters of Willa Cather , an online resource sponsored by the Willa Cather Archive …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … Gere, and Dorothy Canfield. 1892  — Willa Cather becomes literary editor of the  Hesperian , student publication of … poems titled  April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion Edith Lewis. 1905  — Cather’s first …
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