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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Support the Willa … contribute to the community at large.”  The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa … stabilization and eventual restoration and programming.  ABOUT THE BIRTHPLACE The Cather birthplace remains a …
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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 … them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, … incorporated. These include a turquoise jacket that was a gift to Cather from her editors, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… and readers within Cather’s fiction and letters.  The directors invite papers on a variety of topics related to …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about … Valley of her early childhood. Events took place across the country throughout 2023-2024 to honor and celebrate Willa …
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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 … in Columbus Ohio. She is the author of Willa Cather: The Critical Conversation and an Editorial Board member of the …
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Willa Cather Biography

… George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic portrait … 1921. Rinehart-Marsden Studios. Today Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first … matriculation requirements.) Having just arrived from a small town, she took full advantage of the capital's …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … selling farm loans and insurance downtown and rents a story-and-a-half frame house on 3rd and Cedar Streets. Built … of the Panic of 1893. Blind Boone, a well-known African American pianist, performs at the Red Cloud Opera House. …
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63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… open to the public thanks to grant support from Humanities Nebraska . Thursday, May 31 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.: Special Guest … professor of English and anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a former essayist for CBS News Sunday … for a Pushcart Prize and for The Best New American Voices . Her work has appeared in The New York Times , Orion …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… p. 2  Interest in Cather p. 2  Willa Cather Merit Badge Girl Scouts p. 3  President's Activities p. 3  Financial … Fulfilled  AUTHOR: Mildred R. Bennett p. 1  TITLE: Review: Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)  AUTHOR: Dorothy Canfield Fisher p. 3  …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … Littleton Alston's statuette of Willa Cather, a recent gift to the library where it will be permanently displayed … from Cather's fiction, journalism, and letters written or set in Pittsburgh between 1896 and 1929 • Birthday cookies …
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