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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Jun 5 - Saturday, Jun 7, 2025 | All day CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … musical storytelling. Attendees are also encouraged to visit, We're Still Here: American Indian Spirit in the … ways built environments both shape and reflect a person’s experience and character. And then there is Jim’s …
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19th International Willa Cather Seminar
… Image Willa Cather received an honorary doctor of letters degree from … that propose to read across region in Cather’s works and life. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Blue … and sustainability Industrialization and the Rustbelt Literary regionalism: Cather’s relationship to earlier …
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2025 Willa Cather Residency Cohort Announced
… Image 2025 Willa Cather Residency Cohort Announced Cohort in Residence … Lena Hari . Her short stories have appeared in various literary journals, and her work has been supported by … FarmGirl Press. Her poetry has been published in Nebraska Life and in a chapbook, Fencelines (2022). Her writing is …
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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy
… Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy April 9, 2025 RED CLOUD, NE—The National Willa Cather Center celebrated the long-awaited soft opening … boutique hotel and event center. Leaders from the National Willa Cather Center, City of Red Cloud, Red Cloud Community …
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"Willa Cather and the Counterculture" - Registration Closed
… the best 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 …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather
… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short … language, and sensitive explorations of place. Her life and work still inspire insightful scholarly analysis. … her formative Nebraska experiences into an international literary legacy. Cather died in 1947, and was laid to rest …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… her 150th birthday on December 7, an event being celebrated throughout the year and across the country. The occasion … Hall, and I'm thrilled that Nebraska will finally have a literary heroine representing our state in the U.S. … share more about the process and the ceremony, Littleton's journey as an artist, the power of sculpture and the arts to …
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Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold
… and an Editorial Board member of the Willa Cather Review . Tracy Tucker is the Director of Collections & Curation at the … Cather and Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud. Tracyann F. Williams is Assistant Dean for Student Support …
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Willa Cather Biography
… in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, Morrison.” Yes, though Cather deserves to precede Hemingway on this list. Concluding her fine study of Willa … Cather. On April 24, 1947, Cather died from cancer. A private funeral was held in New York, and a memorial service …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain … home of the bride’s mother, Rachel Boak, in Virginia. 1873 — Charles Cather’s brother George and his wife Frances A. … Red Cloud. 1913 — Cather’s first “Nebraska novel,” O Pioneers! , appears in print. Cather agrees to write S. S. …
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