willa cather

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, despite the author's wish for her correspondence to remain unpublished, finally sees the light of day this month. The editors of the book, Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout, take us inside the private life of a great American writer.

The hardscrabble origins and unique vision of novelist Willa Cather – Eric Banks

Willa Cather is often remembered as cantankerous and reclusive by biographers, but that’s not the necessarily the case. Willa Cather is sometimes remembered by biographers as cantankerous and reclusive. While […]

Alex Ross on Willa Cather’s war novel “One of Ours,” from 1922, which merged the flu pandemic of 1918 and the First World War into a general season of death.

Willa Cather's most enduring characters are prairie women, Bohemian Ántonia of My Ántonia and Swedish matriarch Alexandra of O Pioneers! Each is as stalwart as any frontier man. Cather is still celebrated as one of the finest prose stylists of the early 20th century. But access to her personal correspondence has been unheard of, until now.

The Song of the Lark | Willa Cather Archive

This year, 2018, marks the 100th year anniversary of Willa Cather's 'My Ántonia', which is considered to be a classic nowadays.

The following list includes 30 famous people from Nebraska. Each one of them have definitely made their state proud.

W.T.Benda illustration "Lena" for "My Antonia" by Willa Cather.

I’ve never paid much attention to certain aspects of the books I love. Author’s biographies, generally speaking, don’t contribute much to my appreciation for a work. And I must confess that the seq…

AP PhotoWilla Cather, American author and 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner, is seen in this photo from March 1931. Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872), American novelist Willa Cather (1873), Irish novelist Joyce Cary (1888), American linguist and political analyst Noam Chomsky...

Willa Cather?s Spirit Lives On! Willa Cather, writing at the Shattuck Inn at the foot of Mt. Monadnock. Edith Lewis photo A National Celebration of Willa Cather in Jaffrey, NH October 19-20, 2018 and the 100th Anniversary of her best selling classic American novel, My ntonia Come celebrate Cather in words, places, ...

Willa Cather on December 7, 1936

Next year will mark the centennial of Willa Cather’s “My Ántonia,” a work esteemed by generations of Nebraskans.

If you have ever wondered about how 19th century Czech settlers lived on the Great Plains of the American Midwest, there is no better way to find out than by reading the novels of Willa Cather. David Vaughan looks at the Bohemian side of a classic American novelist who is surprisingly little known here in the Czech Republic.

GORE — Although famed novelist Willa Cather’s birthplace is quite dilapidated, it is here to stay.

During May, the Librarything Virago group are reading books by the wonderful Willa Cather. The Professor’s House was the last of her novels I had left to read. I had heard mixed reports of it, but …

Collected Stories (Vintage Classics) by Cather, Willa and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com.

It's December 7, and that means we're celebrating Willa Cather's birthday here at NYPL! Willa Cather was a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet known for her descriptions of life on the American frontier and the immigrant experience.

Willa Cather, American Novelist 1873-1947