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Honors and Achievements

… Image Cather on the Cover of Time Magazine 1931 Honors and Achievements The Pulitzer Prize & More “Miss … of Arts and Letters (1944) Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters  Received a William Dean Howells … Michigan, and Nebraska The Library of Congress included My Ántonia on its list of 100 novels that shaped America …
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Bibliography

… the Archbishop  1927 Shadows on the Rock  1931 Lucy Gayheart  1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl  1940 Short Fiction … Campus Years  1950 Willa Cather in Europe  1956 The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements …
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Summer Snow: A Celebration of Landscape

… must mean to a man to love his country like this . . . ." – One of Ours, Willa Cather The cottonwood tree is a familiar feature … often considered a nuisance in Nebraska, Willa Cather championed the preservation of the oldest trees, recalling how the …
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Nebraska Chamber Players with Brian Leeper present Christian Ellenwood's Children of the Moon

… Children of the Moon , is based on Willa Cather’s  One of Ours  which celebrates its 100th publication anniversary in … event page. Children of the Moon  is composed for baritone voice, flute, clarinet, viola, cello, and piano and …
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Artist Talk with the Bel Canto Duo

… is a four-part movement of original compositions commissioned by the National Willa Cather Center. Inspired by A Lost … of the First Cycle," April Twilights and Other Poems , and One of Ours , these publications defined Willa Cather's 50th year …
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67th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Spring Conference Thursday, Jun 2, 2022 | 12am - Saturday, Jun 4, … Cloud , NE 68970 United States In 2022, our annual Spring Conference will explore the landscape of literary prizes as … Pulitzer Prize-winning novel One of Ours . Our three-day conference, "Literary Prizes: Acclaim and Controversy," will …
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Virtual Author Series: Steven Trout

… centenary of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel  One of Ours in 2022, join us for an engaging discussion with Steven … at Cather's analysis of the Great War through her novels  One of Ours and The Professor's House and reevaluates  One …
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Annotations From the Archive: Soldiers' Letters

… conclude a year of reflection on Willa Cather's 1922 novel One of Ours by highlighting the letters that she received in … to her editor, Ferris Greenslet, that she is at work on not one, but two books. One of those was a return to the Blue …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail

… and eager to hear from readers who really understood it. One of Cather’s earliest letters from a reader must surely … pleasure to know that the story has rung true to someone besides myself . . . . Anyone who has lived in one of … many letters from soldiers after the publication of One of Ours in 1922. Her close personal connection to the people …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions

… to the holidays in her correspondence. Our Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection, part of our Archives and … obscurity. We have come to regard this great feast day of ours as a thing that came about because of a general … The story once in Lincoln's ear, and the thing was done. He saw how precious such a day would become to the …
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