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The Willa Cather Teacher Institute

… Image Image Image Image The Willa Cather Teacher Institute July 13–17, 2026 Are you an … who has always wanted to spend several days immersed in the works of Willa Cather? Are you curious about how the history … of grade levels; Tours, lectures, research, and other NWCC teaching resources to develop lesson plans and activities …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. … and Creative Writing. Her passions for poetry, nature, and music drive her to create a better world for herself and … and the presence of reading and readers within Cather’s fiction and letters.  The directors invite papers on a …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's … Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … seven children raised by Charles and Mary Virginia Cather. Cathers had been in the area since the 1700s, and Back …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … the grave of her cousin, G. P. Cather, whose death in World War I and letters written home inspired Cather to … officer and the first person from Webster County to die in World War I. Cather switches publishers from Houghton …
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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… Image Willa's Cradle, by Betty Kort Image Out in the Kitchen, by … Nov 4, 2023 | All day In 2007, photographer and Willa Cather Foundation executive director Betty Kort created … particularly the visual arts. As Cather chose to view the world through the eyes of a visual artist, painting pictures …
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18th International Willa Cather Seminar

… most of her professional writing life in New York (1906-1947), first in Greenwich Village and later, after she had … and professional life. Seminar check-in is at the Lang Café building, located at 65 W. 11th, first floor. A full … Award from the W.A. Percy Foundation. An Abbreviated Tour of Cather's Greenwich Village Take an hourlong stroll …
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68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Jun 1, 2023 | 9am - Saturday, Jun 3, 2023 | 9pm National Willa Cather Center 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … Media at UC Santa Cruz, where she won the Excellence in Teaching Award. The Passing Show Join panelists Molly Rozum, … music features a wide variety of selections from original works, to arrangements of classical compositions and …
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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

… and special features of each issue of the Review since its first publication in 1957. Simply use the Control + F … p. 1  Conference Schedule p. 1  A Cornish Childhood p. 2  Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by … AUTHOR:  Andrew Jewell  p. 52 TITLE: The One-Sentence Wonder: Willa Cather's Shortest Book AUTHOR: Jeanne C. …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources

… 9, 2025 The collections and archives at the National Willa Cather Center have always, since our founding, played a … to collections, we recognize that there's something special about a personal visit to the archives, where the documents …
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