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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration
… writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (Knopf, 2013), and of the … Cather’s Virginia is based in Gore, Virginia, the first home of one of America’s greatest writers. Pulitzer … the complexities of her Virginia birthplace—including the stories of those who inhabited what she described as “that …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather
… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of Willa Cather 1873–1947 Willa Cather was born in Back Creek …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … readings that there existed a growing body of evidence to support such a claim: Sharon O'Brien's influential … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering, O Pioneers! and My Á ntonia , but …
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Willa on Wednesday at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home
… — Edith Wharton Image The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home Image Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of … July, & August—at The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home Special Events Wednesday, Jun 19, 2024 | 5:30 - 6:30pm … pleased to partner with The Mount , writer Edith Wharton's home in Lenox, Massachusetts, to launch a new series for the …
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Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library
… Hampshire, join us for a sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured … scholar at UCLA and Vice President of the National Willa Cather Center Board of Governors. As Willa Cather spent many autumns (from 1917-late 1930s) on …
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Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration
… Image Willa Cather wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett, c. … HERE Join us for this sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured … overview of her life and work will explore her turbulent biography and uniquely American voice. Sprinkled into the …
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National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month
… the creative energy behind it.” Marketing coordinator, Catherine Pond, who manages the Center’s social media pages added, …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… Month, a time when archivists across the country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … on my reference shelf: The World of Willa Cather , by Mildred Bennett, our founder and one of a handful of people …
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Finding Aids
… Lane The Reign of Law 1913 Mrs. C.F. Cather, E.M. Cather Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales n/a Andrews, Byron and Hugh Craig … Thomas, Dorothy Ma Jeeter's Girls 1933 illegible Thompson, Sylvia The Battle of the Horizons 1928 Christmas 1929, …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia
… by the difficulties and the beauties of the world they must contend with. It is also true, though, that we read … remains a revelation.” — Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley About My Ántonia When critic Randolph Bourne heralded My … Adolph Hitler’s bathtub at the close of World War II. When Mildred Bennett began work on the Willa Cather Pioneer …
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