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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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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… in anticipation of the publication of his new biography, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather . You can pre-order Taylor's …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the letters that she … in California. Our collections also contain a sampling of Willa Cather’s own filing system. She kept certain letters, … Elizabeth A. Shannon Collection Kate M. Cleary: a Literary Biography with Selected Works , by Susanne George-Bloomfield …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thornton Oakley
… 2022 Any researcher can tell you about an “accident of the archives.” A misfiled photo or document may cross a … to be discovered. Such was the circumstance in our archives when Edith Lewis’s two watercolor sketches of Grand … Side Academy to Grow, Admit Girls.” University of Nebraska Archives, “Helen Cather Southwick” Richard Harris's article …
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Celebrating Sandhill Cranes: An Exhibition by Jude Martindale
… 7! We'll welcome Spring to the prairie with tours at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in the afternoon, Jude's … filmmaker John O'Keefe. Click here for more details! Biography Jude Martindale grew up in rural Nebraska and … Nebraska, and the Red Cloud Opera House at the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. While her …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… in anticipation of the publication of his new biography, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather. You can pre-order Taylor's …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Image Image Image Special Events Thursday, Apr 27, 2023 | 7pm Discussion #1: My Ántonia As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year, we are pleased to announce a special virtual …
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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 … , and Bellow’s There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction , also a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag, Debriefing , was published by …
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