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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in Her Work … will begin Thursday, June 5th with a plenary talk about Cather and Mesa Verde by interpretive ranger Ann … are encouraged. Abstracts, along with a short bio, your contact information and institutional affiliation, should be …
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National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Walk in Her Footsteps. Stay in Her Town. Let … group tours, student field trips, small corporate or literary retreats, book clubs, and family gatherings — or …
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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… in front of Hotel Garber on April 4 [see Gallery for full captions] Image Hotel Garber in its opening week … artists or artists in residence will launch in the near future. The addition of this space was envisioned to enable … funds secured from all sources is more than $8 million. The campaign is now within $230,000 of reaching its goal.  In …
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19th International Willa Cather Seminar

… Image Willa Cather received an honorary doctor of letters degree from … papers that propose to read across region in Cather’s works and life. Possible topics include, but are not limited … below and completing the provided Google Form. Decisions about acceptance to the conference will be communicated in …
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"Willa Cather and the Counterculture" - Registration Closed

… time in New Mexico. We’ll discuss and share from Cather’s  Death Comes for the Archbishop  and  The Professor’s House , as well as a host …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of … . After the publication of her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge , Cather left the magazine to focus full-time on her …
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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 … event being celebrated throughout the year and across the country. The occasion also comes in the centenary year of … on "Willa Cather as a Nebraskan." In Red Cloud, guided tours of Cather historic sites were offered at 11:00 a.m., …
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Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold

… Conference Thursday, Jun 6, 2024 | 7 - 8pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … She was both a regional writer and an international literary superstar; her novels and stories transported …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but there are a succession of … she offered this description, Cather had just published  O Pioneers! , her first and far more literary novel focused on … year in Nebraska. As she made clear repeatedly after  O Pioneers!  was published, she had been afforded a rare …
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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 … not proclaimed as being bound for lofty things by the local newspaper. Only sixteen years old, Cather enrolls at the … by Knopf. 1936  — Knopf publishes Cather’s only book of essays,  Not Under Forty . In the book’s introduction, …
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