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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … will require significant restoration in order to be saved.  Virginia realtor Katherine Solenberger purchased the … rural origins of a great writer who, toward the end of her life, struggled to write the story of her home state.  …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … not find them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… June 6th. Author Kali Fajardo-Anstine will join us as an invited speaker on Friday, June 7th, and the spring … to announce that Kali Fajardo-Anstine will join us for an invited lecture on Cather and the reader experience. In her … readers within Cather’s fiction and letters.  The directors invite papers on a variety of topics related to Cather, …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood … Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather … is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. Events took place across the country throughout 2023-2024 to …
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Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold

… the Director of the Cather Project, author of The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith …
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Willa Cather Biography

… of the leading figures of American literary Modernism has only increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa … the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States … that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871  — In Silas Garber’s dugout, Webster County and the … close friend. 1912  — Cather’s first novel,  Alexander’s Bridge , appears in  McClure’s  as  Alexander’s Masquerade . …
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63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… May 31, 2018 | 12am - Saturday, Jun 2, 2018 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … at Last is an American Novel”: Celebrating 100 Years of My Ántonia Red Cloud, NE | May 31–June 2, 2018 Conference registration has closed. However, the following events are free and open to the public thanks to grant …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Cather p. 1  WCPM Museum and Archives p. 2  Programs for Young People p. 3  World Wide Interest and Publications … Play Reviews from the Pittsburgh Leader) p. 1  "An American Citizen" p. 1  "Nethersole's Carmen" p. 2  "John Drew in … AUTHOR: Charles Peek p. 36  TITLE: Brown and White at the Dance: Another Word on Cather and Race  AUTHOR: Janis P. …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year with a host of special events … Service, with matching funds provided by the  Willa Cather Foundation’s  Campaign for the Future .  Book clubs and …
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