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Alexander's Bridge

… Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious engineer, Bartley … integrity and the life choices he has made.  Though Cather later asked for her second novel, O Pioneers! to be … writing. Told from a more Eurocentric view than her later novels, this is Cather’s first attempt at long-form fiction …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   … Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton …
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Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View

… Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… for My Ántonia , Cather received the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . She won the William Dean Howells Medal for Death … selected her final resting place and designed her tombstone, which features these memorable words from My Ántonia : …
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Willa Cather Biography

… the country—Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, among many other locations. Beginning in the 1980s, International Willa … for Webster County, Nebraska, northwest of Red Cloud. In April 1883, Cather moved with her extended family—mother, … was then concentrating on poetry—her first book,  April Twilights , appeared from a vanity press in 1903. It was …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site that would soon … set in Brownville, Nebraska, is published in the April 1897 issue of Home Monthly . Cather returns to Red …  — Cather’s first book, a collection of poems titled  April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion …
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Book Club Resources

… The Professor's House The Professor's House Alexander's Bridge Alexander's Bridge My Mortal Enemy My Mortal Enemy Shadows on the Rock …
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Bibliography

… The Troll Garden  1905 Youth and the Bright Medusa  1920 Obscure Destinies  1932 The Old Beauty and Others  1948 Willa …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … 16.1  Winter 1972 Editor: Miriam Mountford  Cather Horne Named … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip … 36.1  Spring 1992  SPRING CONFERENCE NEWS  Editor: John J. Murphy  TITLE: …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A Lost Lady (1923), all of which … well regarded works include The Professor’s House (1925), My Mortal Enemy (1926), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Shadows on …
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