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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … has been the new and ready availability of Cather’s own letters to researchers. These letters are held in archives … precluded by a proviso in Cather’s will. But The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (2013), edited by Andrew …
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Annotations from the Archive: Association Copies

… youngest brother, the namesake for “Jack-a-Boy.” A copy of Death Comes For the Archbishop inscribed by Willa Cather to her father Charles …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… and is buried near a crossroads. Cather, on whom almost nothing was lost, will later use this event in one of her … Nebraska State Journal . Her first regular column appears under the heading “One Way of Putting It.” Silas Garber’s …  — Knopf publishes Cather’s only book of essays,  Not Under Forty . In the book’s introduction, Cather states that for …
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Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… Image Willa Cather Image Join us at the Boston Athenaeum Special Events … HERE The Boston Athenaeum is pleased to partner with The National Willa Cather Center to commemorate the sesquicentennial of Willa Cather's …
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Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration

… My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , Death Comes for the Archbishop ) set a new standard in American literature. This …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor

… The New York Times  and Jonathan Yardley in  The Washington Post , and Bellow’s  There Is Simply Too Much to Think …
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Book Club Resources

… scene of Song of the Lark and “Old Mrs. Harris.” The Burlington Depot, the setting for many short stories such as “The … in the Cather family’s Second Home with your book club; the location where Willa often returned to visit her family and …
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Reading Willa Cather with Mary Stuart Masterston & Jeremy Davidson

… fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , Death Comes for the Archbishop ) set a new standard in American literature. This …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … Princeton. In 1944 she received the gold medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.” 50 Volunteers, 34 …
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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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