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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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10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!
… The prominent Romanesque Revival style bank was built by Silas Garber and his partners in 1889 and was the first home of … Nebraska’s fourth governor, Garber and his socialite wife Lyra were friends of Cather’s and provided her the …
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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
… 2.1 Spring 1958 Editor: Mildred R. Bennett Officers and Board … Coverage p. 3 Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4 Mailing of Newsletter p. 4 … of Grace AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13 John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15 WCPM announces 1985 trip … Old World Connection: The 6th International Seminar (Quebec 1995) AUTHOR: None listed p. 50 TITLE: Cather's Manifesto …
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Remembering Our Fallen
… for a complete traveling schedule. The author Willa Cather, who gave her commencement speech from the Red Cloud … met him just on the edge of town, and we stopped to chat about the war news. I believe he always wanted to be a soldier. I can see …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published
… at www.WillaCather.org. Willa Cather has been regarded as one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century. … her later works include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A Lost Lady (1923), … the pioneering experience on the Plains. In 1923, One of Ours (1922) received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her …
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2011 Season Pass
… and Dvorak. Rin-Tin-Tin XI, a descendent of the original, one of the most famous canines in the world, will make an … and neighbors, who have given their lives to protect ours. Save the date for Joseph Hall as Elvis who will take a …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame
… first achieved national recognition for novels such as O Pioneers! and My Ántonia, in which she drew on her own … of these settings and experiences: the backdrop for much of One of Ours (1922), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, is World …
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Local artists' exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House
… have to their land in her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, One of Ours . Protagonist Claude Wheeler, a farm boy from Nebraska, …
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