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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in Her Work Spring Conference Thursday, Jun 5 - … conference will pay special attention to built and natural environments within them, as well as throughout Cather’s … characters inhabit, but also the cultural, historical, and environmental realities that do, or in some cases, do not, …
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Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer

… Conference Friday, Jun 6, 2025 | 7 - 8:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … a year-long celebration of Cather's 1918 novel as a title selected by the National Endowment for the Arts' 2024-2025 … young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime …
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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… An eyesore at the corner of two major intersecting highways, the Potter building had been vacant and decaying for … recalled these occasions in both her published work and private letters. Now joined with the Center’s preserved … gifts from many generous individuals and foundations. These private gifts helped leverage grant awards from the Nebraska …
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"Willa Cather and the Counterculture" - Registration Closed

… of its historic and arts offerings, while learning about Cather’s time in New Mexico. We’ll discuss and share from … who had his own vision of the counterculture lifestyle. “Willa Cather and the Counterculture” explores Cather’s … David Harrell. In Vol. 33 of the Willa Cather Newsletter & Review. pp. 4-8.  …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of Willa Cather 1873–1947 Willa Cather was born in Back Creek … Quebec, and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, among others. Cather’s literature found national and international …
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Willa Cather Biography

… southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny … her time on the Divide, Cather attended a one-room school house, but Charles Cather was not suited to be a prairie … to and from the depot south of town. The Red Cloud Opera House , now restored and the offices and performance space …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 2.1  Spring 1958  Editor: Mildred R. Bennett  Officers and Board … Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … in Cather p. 3  Board of Governors p. 3  Taxes p. 4  1971 Spring Conference p. 4  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Image Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather … National Willa Cather Center will remain a primary location to learn about and research one of America's most … Places and open for guided tours regularly: Willa Cather’s Childhood Home , a National Historic Landmark, was the …
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New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

… Image New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux August 21, 2017 Willa … her emergent modernism. An epilogue by the editors of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather addresses how the recent …
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New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital

… Image New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital September 9, 2015 … many scholars believed that Cather burned most of her letters before her death. Not so. In the new NET Television … 6, 13, 20 and 27) on NET Radio. Based on the 2013 book The Selected Letters of Willa Cather , co-edited by University …
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