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Virtual Author Series: Terese Svoboda
… Online Now Join us for a discussion of Svoboda’s answer to Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia ! Readers will delight in … Kent as "astounding;" The Washington Post regarded her biography Anything That Burns You as "magisterial." …
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General Resources
… General Resources Four excellent ways to discover more about Cather's life and work include: An extended Willa Cather biography . Texts, chronology, and other … the Cather historic sites. Cather enthusiasts around the world may discover Cather's Red Cloud using our Virtual …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong
… Wong, of Showtime's hit series Billions , made a low key visit to Red Cloud and the National Willa Cather Center last week. Wong and Giamatti, who joined … a native of Illinois, this visit marked her first Cather experience. Both actors live and work in Brooklyn, New York, …
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Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading
… Image Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather Special Events Thursday, Dec 7, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Willa Cather Foundation 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970-2466 United …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… #4: Death Comes for the Archbishop As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed novelist … and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and serves as president of the Edward F. Albee …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… "Chasing Bright Medusas" Discussion #3: The Professor's House Special Events Thursday, Sep 21, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Discussion #3: The Professor's House As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to … third study in this series will focus on The Professor's House , a novel that showcases Cather's evolution as an …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the … 2023 As has been noted so often before, there exists within Willa Cather so many interesting dualities. She was … afforded her—the fine clothes, the fascinating company. The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection contains even more …
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Organization History
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group … intertwined with Cather’s fictional worlds. Bennett’s 1951 biography The World of Willa Cather is still widely used by scholars as a valuable …
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Virtual Author Series: Dr. Kelsey Squire
… we sit down with Dr. Kelsey Squire to talk about teaching Willa Cather! Author of the book, Willa Cather: The Critical Conversation , Squire will discuss her book as well as how to incorporate biography and issues surrounding history, race, and gender …
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Spring Conference Banquet and 'A Little Pleasure'
… Conference Saturday, Jun 1, 2019 | 6:30 - 8:30pm National Willa Cather Center 425 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … by Julia Hinson from Cather’s short fiction, criticism, and biography. This new work is a narrative adaptation of … of Wagner, but the action of the story is halted as Willa Cather herself arrives to watch the show! Both …
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