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The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read: My Ántonia
… Events Friday, Oct 4, 2024 | All day CT the National Willa Cather Center 425 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … citizen and student pricing is available for the tour. Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles … Blind d’Arnault. It utilizes archival imagery and artist biography to inspire patrons to grapple with larger …
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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
… more about Cather's life and work include: An extended Willa Cather biography . Texts, chronology, and other resources may be accessed using the Willa Cather Archive . Readers are encouraged to visit …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong
… , made a low key visit to Red Cloud and the National Willa Cather Center last week. Wong and Giamatti, who joined … Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather historic sites, the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie , and a quiet stay in the … the adaption of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Adams . …
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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 … writer and biographer Benjamin Taylor's much-anticipated biography Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather ! …
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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 Willa Cather’s 150th year, we are pleased to conclude a … Edward F. Albee Foundation. Chasing Bright Medusas , his biography of Willa Cather, is due from Viking Press in 2023. …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Discussion #3: The Professor's House As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year, we are pleased to announce a … scheduled in anticipation of the publication of his new biography, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather. …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been … the most pertinent portion of the review or article. Our collections include hundreds of such clippings, some … part of the United States. . . . From this experience I learned a lesson. The better the advertising, the worse it …
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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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