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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in … Featured Speaker Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres , which was awarded the … Pulitzer Prize, The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck , Early Warning , and Golden Age , Perestroika in Paris , and, …
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Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer
Image Jane Smiley Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Spring Conference Friday, Jun 6, 2025 | 7 - 8:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States We are delighted to welcome Pulitzer Prize winner Jane …
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Willa Cather & the Farm Novel Tradition
… Papillion , NE 68046 United States REGISTER HERE Willa Cather's early novels depicting farm life explore both her memories of …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather … pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age, she established her “library,” with her books … areas: Representations of readers and reading in Cather’s novels and short stories. How readers navigate challenging …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… restoration, the Willa Cather Childhood Home reopened for tours on December 7, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s … a private fundraising effort as part of the Center’s Campaign for the Future , which raised more than $7 million for restoration …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather, 1921. …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas … Gere, Cather visits Brownville, Nebraska. A feature story about Brownville titled "The Old River Metropolis" was … House. (It would not reopen until after the Willa Cather Foundation begins its restoration efforts beginning in 1991 …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature
… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center Image Willa Cather, 9, taken in Virginia … history of Willa Cather, Olsen will detail how the writer’s early years in Frederick County, Virginia, and formative years in Nebraska influenced the novels Sapphira and the Slave Girl and My Ántonia . …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of …
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Cather Weekend on Governors Island
… Park Governors Island , NY 10004 United States The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) is partnering with the Empire State … nine years old, her family moved from Virginia to Nebraska. Early years in Webster County and in Red Cloud did much to … Herself Born Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she made a mark as a …
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