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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… ET Museum of the Shenandoah Valley 901 Amherst Street Winchester , VA 22601 United States Register Now Though … Virginian, whose relatives aligned on opposing sides of the Civil War. Her fiction, although often set far from Virginia, …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… of short fiction, two editions of her book of poetry,  April Twilights , and a large body of nonfiction, journalism, …
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Willa Cather Biography

… publish there; it serialized her first novel,  Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
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Willa on Wednesday at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home

… Image The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home Image Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture Third … , MA 01240 United States PURCHASE TICKETS The National Willa Cather Center is pleased to partner with The Mount , … times. Cipkowski's lecture will explore Cather’s turbulent biography and uniquely American voice, which set a new …
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Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library

… Hampshire, join us for a sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured … of Cather's life and times will explore her turbulent biography and uniquely American voice. Sprinkled into the … scholar at UCLA and Vice President of the National Willa Cather Center Board of Governors. As Willa Cather …
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Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration

… Image Willa Cather wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett, c. … HERE Join us for this sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured … overview of her life and work will explore her turbulent biography and uniquely American voice. Sprinkled into the …
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National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month

… Image National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month March … widely recognized that writing poetry represented some of Willa Cather’s earliest literary endeavors. Even after … Cather’s poetry provides clues that help us to define her biography. While socially isolating, Cather fans should …
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Virtual Author Series: Brad Bigelow

… Online Now Delve into the life and work of an important Willa Cather scholar with the return of our virtual author … his new book, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts,  a biography that chronicles Virginia Faulkner’s career as a … what author Timothy Schaffert calls “mad devotion to Willa Cather.”  Spend an evening with Bigelow as he …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Roscoe Cather 1939/02/03 Correspondence TEX-278-011 Postcard to Willard Crowell A.P. Tone Wilson 1939/02/16 …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… frequently that I keep a hard copy at home and at work. Did Willa Cather say, "Anybody can love the mountains, but it's … sodbusters" or "early Dakota settlers" or generic "Willa Cathers" with no clue about the actual source.  The closest … Georgia O'Keeffe? Many readers of Cather's work and her biography immediately connect her with Georgia O'Keeffe—with …
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