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Experience America’s Literary Legacy

… National Willa Cather Center where you can relax in our art gallery or bookstore or begin your tour experience. Our arts … related to Willa Cather. Our Red Cloud Opera House Gallery hosts exhibits throughout the year while our …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 12/01/2025

Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… Image This event is SOLD OUT! Special Events Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 6 - 7:15pm Saturday, Oct 18, … into novels and short stories such as My Ántonia , The Song of the Lark , "The Sculptor's Funeral," and "The Affair at Grover …
Posted: 08/18/2025
Last Updated: 10/14/2025

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about … and extensive repairs to the windows and doors sealed the building envelope, which will limit exposure to the elements …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong

… The Song of the Lark and had particularly enjoyed  Death Comes for the Archbishop, a novel he would love to see adapted for the big …
Posted: 08/29/2019
Last Updated: 03/08/2024

Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather

… Image Presented in partnership with the Ames Writers Collective and Ames Public Library Special Events Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024 | 7 - 8pm Ames Public Library 515 Douglas Avenue … and the critically acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . In …
Posted: 01/04/2024
Last Updated: 02/05/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… returned to Nebraska from Quebec in her penultimate novel,  Lucy Gayheart , Cather offers a description of a character which … (v). As she would later write of Clement Sebastian in  Lucy Gayheart , Cather was herself "nearing fifty" (78) and …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

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, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Poudre Libraries — Harmony Library 4616 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80526 United States …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/26/2023

Willa Cather Timeline

… Cloud. 1880  — Willa Cather’s second oldest brother Douglass Cather is born. 1881  — Willa Cather’s oldest sister … of short stories,  The Troll Garden , is published by S. S. McClure. 1906  — Cather accepts a job at  McClure’s  in New … , appears in print. Cather agrees to write S. S. McClure’s autobiography. When finished,  My Autobiography  runs under …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… and the critically acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . This …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2023

Press Room

… as a regular setting in Cather's work—in particular  O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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