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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong

… and shared that he was currently reading Cather's  The Song of the Lark and had particularly enjoyed  Death Comes for the …
Posted: 08/29/2019
Last Updated: 03/08/2024

Annotations from the Archives: The Cather Family Library

… details of "The Grief of the Pasha" in her 1915 novel, The Song of the Lark. Image Willa Cather wrote her name and the year 1882 in … part of both of the family's Red Cloud homes between 1884–1936. Some of the books were published far earlier and may …
Posted: 02/05/2024
Last Updated: 02/06/2024

Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather

… acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . In partnership with the Ames …
Posted: 01/04/2024
Last Updated: 02/05/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through each volume’s extensive apparatus, … until early 1901, when she accepted a high school teaching position in Pittsburgh, later moving across the …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway

… Home Restoration Underway Set to Reopen in December of 2023   Make a Gift to Benefit Ongoing Preservation Efforts! … years. The Cather house is vividly described in The Song of the Lark , “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years.” The National …
Posted: 09/26/2022
Last Updated: 11/29/2023

Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… [1913],  The Song of the Lark  [1915], and especially  My Ántonia  [1918]) had established the decade before. By …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/26/2023

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — … Cather visits Red Cloud. 1901  — Cather takes a job teaching high school students in Pittsburgh and moves into … Lady , Cather vows not to allow any more adaptations of her works. She later stipulates this in her will. 1935  — In the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark My Ántonia My Ántonia One of Ours One of Ours A Lost Lady A Lost Lady … The Professor's House Alexander's Bridge Alexander's Bridge My Mortal Enemy My Mortal Enemy Shadows on the Rock Shadows …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… later won a medal in an Austrian shooting competition.  “My parents worked and saved so that I could go to college … numerous coincidences of Cather's character, ‘Thea’ with my own.” Sarah knew Mildred Bennett in Red Cloud, who was … English was her high school music teacher.  “He encouraged my singing when I thought it was nothing special. I was …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration

… one of only twenty-two National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska and the site most closely associated with the life … site opened to visitors in 1967 and was later gifted to the Nebraska State Historical Society in 1978. The … the ages of ten to sixteen. While she moved away from Nebraska in 1896, her parents Charles and Mary Virginia …
Posted: 07/21/2022
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

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