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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th was celebrated in 2023, … who, toward the end of her life, struggled to write the story of her home state.  Sapphira and the Slave Girl …
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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 Hall, U.S. Capitol Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… her “library,” with her books labeled and sometimes numbered in the back room of her father’s office. As our … on Saturday, June 8th. Attendees are also encouraged to visit, Hommage: Willa Cather , on view at the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery, and Travis Hencey's new …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour … of educational programming and exhibits, development of visitor amenities, and an endowment for preservation and …
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Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold

… Conference Thursday, Jun 6, 2024 | 7 - 8pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … the film’s development: Littleton Alston is Professor of Sculpture at Creighton University, the recipient of numerous …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … a prominent writer herself, and the three made a well-known visit with A. E. Housman, then a poet Cather much admired. … met his family and Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, who was visiting the McClures. Among his prominent authors were …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… claims near a site that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871  — In Silas Garber’s dugout, Webster … Red Cloud, the town’s third train depot, built in 1897 and visited by Cather on return trips, is now on the National …
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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

… Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … 16.1  Winter 1972 Editor: Miriam Mountford  Cather Horne Named … Summer Art Workshop p. 2  Cather Graduate Seminar in 1981 p. 4  Lucy Gayheart Panel at Conference p. 5  Cather … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … the  Willa Cather Foundation’s  Campaign for the Future .  Book clubs and teachers around the country are encouraged to … from Cather's fiction, journalism, and letters written or set in Pittsburgh between 1896 and 1929 • Birthday cookies …
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