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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short … Center, New Hampshire. Her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, selected her final resting place and designed her tombstone, … , and a large body of nonfiction, journalism, speeches, and letters.  Critical Biography Bibliography Honors & …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Genuine Pleasure:" Willa Cather Readers Theater , will take place on Saturday, June 8th. Attendees are also encouraged … English and Creative Writing. Her passions for poetry, nature, and music drive her to create a better world for … the National Speech and Debate Association since 2021 and placed in the top 100 in the nation for poetry in 2022.  …
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Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library

… and gradual emergence. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather …
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine

… of the Willa Cather Spring Conference We are pleased to welcome acclaimed author Kali Fajardo-Anstine, who will join … duty." We look forward to hearing more from Fajardo-Anstine about the readerly imagination that Cather's work inspires.  … by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. About Kali Fajardo-Anstine Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the …
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The Passing Show

… Image Pleasures and Disruptions: Reading Cather Collectively Spring Conference Saturday, Jun 8, 2024 … and Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wyoming. Her writing on 19th … Writers , a more inclusive update to their Four Stories volume, is forthcoming from Penguin Classics in 2025. She is …
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Beneath the Wide-Open

… there, under one’s feet, but what one saw when one looked about was that brilliant blue world of stinging air and … landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the … Archbishop  The National Willa Cather Center is pleased to welcome oil painter Jonathan Goodding to the Red Cloud Opera …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong

… , and a quiet stay in the Cather Second Home guest house.  "My mother was a high school English teacher," Giamatti said. " My Ántonia was something she taught a lot, and so Cather was …
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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal

… Image Grant Reynard's 1948 letter to Mildred Bennett Image Grant Reynard's "Mike's Blacksmith … Stack" Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal August 14, 2022 The archives are built upon the art and the … many acquaintances, friends, and relatives, inquiring about their willingness to speak about the author. The …
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Willa Cather Biography

… of the leading figures of American literary Modernism has only increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa … the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith …
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