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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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Annotations from the Archive: The Death of G.P. Cather

… The Death of G.P. Cather June 20, 2022 The centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winner for fiction, … death on May 28, 1918, at the battle for Cantigny, France—one of the American infantry’s defining battles—details …
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Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman

… April 29, 2022 As we begin to commemorate the centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winner for Fiction, we … death on May 28, 1918, at the battle for Cantigny, France—one of the American infantry’s defining battles—details …
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10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!

… a guided Town Tour , a driving and guided site tour with one of our expert guides. 6. Explore rural Webster County … A Lost Lady   is celebrating 100 years of publication, and one of several of Cather's novels based on people and places … Twilights and Other Poems by Willa Cather (1923) One of Ours by Willa Cather (awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction …
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Willa Cather Goes Back to School, Almost

… Willa Cather Center as part of the original Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection, in a property and archives … was quite happy; when I failed to please her there was only one thing I cared about, and that was to try again and make … in life is to keep faith with those two friends of ours who gave us their confidence. In the long summer …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents Table of Contents This Table of Contents for the Willa Cather Review was compiled by Virgil and Dolores Albertini. A tool for researchers and scholars, the Table of Contents provides easy …
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Remembering Our Fallen

… of her cousin, G.P. Cather. She won a Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours which was inspired by his story and character. While … when this terrible war began. I drove over the Campbell one day, and G. P. took a load of wheat over. I was coming …
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