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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Though associated with the Great Plains, American author Willa Cather spent much of her childhood in Frederick County, … , a highly respected Willa Cather scholar, is currently writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The …
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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 …
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Willa Cather Biography

… increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen … returned to Nebraska from Quebec in her penultimate novel,  Lucy Gayheart , Cather offers a description of a character which …
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Willa on Wednesday at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home

… $5 off their ticket purchases with a special code!  Contact Jeniffer Beahm, Development Coordinator, at jbeahm@willacather.org . or (402) 746-2653 Willa on Wednesday …
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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

… to Willa Cather.”  Spend an evening with Bigelow as he discusses his research, his expertise about Faulkner’s life, and … an ASL interpreter, or any other accommodations, please contact our Visitor Services Coordinator, Nick Powers, at … He is the editor of the Recovered Books series for Boiler House Press and has been a writer for the Neglected Books …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest … Miner Sherwood. Microfilm roll of Day by Day with the Utah Pioneers, 1847 . Language: The material is in English Access … Mildred Bennett Collection documents the organizational and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… every day is Ask-An-Archivist Day. Below, our archivist, Tracy Sanford Tucker, answers the questions she gets most often. How do …
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