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Kali Fajardo-Anstine

… House, and will also be available digitally below. In her introduction for the 2023 Penguin Classics edition of  Death …
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The Passing Show

… Image Pleasures and Disruptions: Reading Cather Collectively Spring Conference Saturday, Jun 8, 2024 … and Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wyoming. Her writing on 19th … Writers , a more inclusive update to their Four Stories volume, is forthcoming from Penguin Classics in 2025. She is …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Cather Family Library

… Image Cather included details of "The Grief of the Pasha" in her 1915 novel, The Song of the Lark. Image Willa Cather wrote her name and the year 1882 in …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Sinclair Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the …
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My Ántonia Selected for NEA’s Big Read

… using as inspiration one of 50 available NEA Big Read books . These 50 titles are drawn from the NEA Big Read …
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Annotations from the Archive: Association Copies

… and archivists to describe several different types of books. In general, an association copy was owned, at some … book, in a variety of ways. Our association copies include: Books owned by Willa Cather Willa Cather’s personal copy of … at length in a later Annotations , contains a number of books personally owned by Willa Cather, such as the family …
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Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading

… and Kelsey Squire to discuss their recently published books and particular areas of Cather expertise. We hope to … and the cost includes shipping.  Interested in additional books about Willa Cather? Check out these titles, all available at our bookstore: The World of Willa Cather by Mildred Bennett The …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… Image Willa Cather, c. 1912 Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events Thursday, Nov 9, … and cemented the reputation her prairie-plains novels ( O Pioneers!  [1913],  The Song of the Lark  [1915], and …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… her paternal grandparents, William and Caroline Cather. The house, called Willow Shade, is located in an area near Back … brother Roscoe Cather is born. 1879  — Railroad begins operating in Red Cloud. 1880  — Willa Cather’s second oldest … Gere, Cather visits Brownville, Nebraska. A feature story about Brownville titled "The Old River Metropolis" was …
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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 novelist … and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and serves as president of the Edward F. Albee …
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