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Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights
… Image Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights April 8, 2025 Though Willa Cather is known worldwide as a …
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Finding Aids
… for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range: 1762-1973 Bulk dates: 1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy Sanford Tucker, 2015 Copyright: National Willa Cather Center Extent: Two … Information: This collection came to the WCF in 2008, deposited by James and Angela Southwick. Access …
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Cather Sesquicentennial
… The National Endowment for the Humanities Big Read of My Ántonia : September 1, 2024-June 30, 2025 — Programs and … p.m. ET • Readings by actors Mary Stuart Masterson and Jeremy Davison, with musical performances by Hailey McAvoy …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather
… translated into over forty languages. Widely celebrated for My Ántonia , Cather received the Pulitzer Prize for One of … her tombstone, which features these memorable words from My Ántonia : “that is happiness; to be dissolved into …
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Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns!
… senior year of high school when her literature class read My Ántonia . Drawn in not only by Cather’s strong prose, …
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Willa Cather Biography
… in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, Morrison.” Yes, though Cather deserves to precede Hemingway on this list. Concluding her fine study of Willa … Cather. On April 24, 1947, Cather died from cancer. A private funeral was held in New York, and a memorial service …
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Annotations from the Archive: Association Copies
… Books owned by someone related to a Cather book’s content Because six of Cather's twelve novels and many short … owned by someone connected tangentially to a Cather book’s content A personal copy of Youth and the Bright Medusa , … books given by the author that have no connection to the content or production of the book. Another example of a …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … later use this event in one of her most famous novels, My Antonia . 1882 — Red Cloud becomes a division point for …
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Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration
… The Library is pleased to partner with the National Willa Cather Center to commemorate Willa Cather’s 150th birthday. This monumental year for … Capote’s unfinished reminiscence of his chance meeting with Willa Cather at the New York Society Library in 1942. Light …
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The Bel Canto Duo: Four Cather Tableaux
… A Lost Lady , "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," April Twilights and Other Poems, and One of Ours , publications …
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