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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather

… Cather's Writings Students & Teachers Students & Teachers Upcoming Events Upcoming Events Recent News Recent News The Big Read of My …
Posted: 12/07/2022
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… writer. While Cather moved away from Nebraska in 1896, her parents Charles and Mary Virginia Cather rented the home … of the original wallpaper in Willa Cather’s attic bedroom, planned to begin in the spring of 2024. Cleaning, … Conservation  The original wallpaper in Cather’s attic bedroom is a late nineteenth century floral pattern that she …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Finding Aids

… York Herald Tribune 1933 Clipping TX-50-1000-054 Review of  April Twilights Pittsburg Gazette 1903 Clipping TX-50-1000-055 … notes. Most entries are in Cather’s hand; a few are in another hand, possibly Edith Lewis’s. Language:  The material …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Guided Seasonal Tour

Image Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for their 2024 Big Read initiative. In partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read supports community …
Posted: 08/23/2024
Last Updated: 01/03/2025

Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (Knopf, 2013), and of the … Cather’s Virginia is based in Gore, Virginia, the first home of one of America’s greatest writers. Pulitzer … the complexities of her Virginia birthplace—including the stories of those who inhabited what she described as “that …
Posted: 10/07/2024
Last Updated: 10/21/2024

Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … —Watch a recording of the ceremony and scroll down for a gallery of images and more information— The Congressional …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Historic Sites

Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront of of the preservation movement, restoring and caring for the sites that were important to Willa Cather's life and writing. “Every time I …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

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 …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail

… the Archives: Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the … family struggled to survive, was the author of hundreds of stories and poems, the proceeds of which helped to keep the … Collection Kate M. Cleary: a Literary Biography with Selected Works , by Susanne George-Bloomfield …
Posted: 08/17/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents Table … Miriam Mountford  Aims of the WCPM p. 1  Staff p. 1  Museum News and Donors p. 1  Interesting Visitors p. 2  Nebraska … p. 3  TITLE: The Expression of Loneliness  AUTHOR: Jacquelynn S. Lewis p. 3  English Reviews of Obscure Destinies p. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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