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Annotations from the Archive: Association Copies

… Image Willa Cather's name inside Pilgrim's Progress Annotations … Because six of Cather's twelve novels and many short stories utilized people, places, and events from Red Cloud's early days, many of our collected books could be included in this category. We have, …
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Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading

… Image Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather Special Events Thursday, Dec 7, 2023 | 7 - 8pm … , 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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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… to students under the eighth grade: “Miss Cather told her audience that one of the things which retarded art in America … a crime against art’ declared Miss Cather, who kept her audience laughing and gasping at the daring but simple … old men I used to know: ‘Eric Ericson, born Bergen, Norway…died Nebraska’; ‘Anton Pucelik, born Prague, Bohemia…died …
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Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty

… Street.   This novel explores the friendship between Willa Cather and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. Two different writers … of English and Creative Writing, Emeritus. In 2018, Literary Arts awarded him and his wife, Marjorie Sandor, the …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… Annotations from the Archives: The Library July 11, 2023 Creating a culture of … Red Cloud did not have a public library until 1917. Though literary clubs were popular in the area, most people relied …
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Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!

… between the University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center. Nolan Bennett , originally from Kearney, … Double Major, she has an interest in creative writing, literary studies and indigenous studies. Lucy became …
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Authors Margo Jefferson & Elizabeth Kendall

… United States '"Raw and relentless/gaudy and extravagant": Willa Cather's New York' Join us at the  18th International Willa … dance. She is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Literary Studies at the Eugene Lang College of New School in …
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Press Room

… that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, and the work of the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Contact … all a creator: of her own career, of her persona, and of literary worlds. Since 1955, Cather’s legacy has been shared …
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Organization History

… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of … this Memorial to Willa Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to …
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Event Archives

… Prairie Writers Special Events Spring Conference Image Willa Cather Writes the Immigrant Experience in Rural Nebraska … Olsen, director of education and engagement, will present, “Willa Cather Writes the Immigrant Experience in Rural …
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