Search Results

26 results found

70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… to register was May 25. Please see the schedule below for events that are free and open to the public. Download the … encouraged. Abstracts, along with a short bio, your contact information and institutional affiliation, should be …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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 …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… The Ribbon-Cutting in front of Hotel Garber on April 4 [see Gallery for full captions] Image Hotel Garber in its opening … visitors with access to a new permanent exhibit,  Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud . The exhibit chronicles …
Posted:
Last Updated:

"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 … before the term was coined in the 1960s. When Mabel Dodge settled in Taos and began to invite her friends and artists … If you plan to arrive early or leave late and want to book an extra night, you will book with MDLH directly and we …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short … her family moved to rural Webster County, Nebraska, and later to the town of Red Cloud, where she lived until … personal and cultural environments. While six of Cather’s novels were inspired by her Nebraska experiences, her …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Willa Cather Biography

… as a regional writer for decades after her passing in 1947, critics and commentators have increasingly identified … and this was a decision that transformed her career. Building upon her solid foundation as an energetic … letters.  A Lost Lady, published in 1923, is something of tour de force example of the sort of fiction Cather called …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Carmen" p. 2  "John Drew in 'Rosemary'" p. 2  "Mansfield's 'Shylock"' p. 3  TITLE: O Pioneers! in London: A … Conference p. 18  John J. Murphy Publishes a Teacher's Guide to O Pioneers! and My Ántonia p. 18  … Daryl W. Palmer p. 31 TITLE:  Willa Cather's Field Guide to Wildflowers: The object and What It Tells  AUTHOR: Janis P. …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Image Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation January 23, … the transfer of ownership of the Willa Cather State Historic Site to the Willa Cather Foundation. Located in Red … iconic writers. Tourists and scholars from around the world visit Red Cloud because of its associations with Willa …
Posted:
Last Updated:

New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

… Image New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux August … made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. … shaping of the world of the early twentieth century and later into a singular modernism born of both inherited and …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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 …
Posted:
Last Updated: