Authors Margo Jefferson & Elizabeth Kendall

'"Raw and relentless/gaudy and extravagant": Willa Cather's New York'

Join us at the 18th International Willa Cather Seminar in New York for this free program at The New School, with authors Margo Jefferson and Elizabeth Kendall, who will discuss Willa Cather's New York stories.

Margo Jefferson

The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Margo Jefferson previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica. Her memoir, Negroland, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. In Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir, Jefferson examines her life through the artists who have influenced her, including Willa Cather. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Elizabeth Kendall

Elizabeth Kendall is a nonfiction writer and the author of Balanchine and the Lost Muse and Where She Danced, a history of modern dance. She is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Literary Studies at the Eugene Lang College of New School in Greenwich Village, teaching classes in memoir, cultural criticism, and race and gender in American culture. 

The 18th International Cather Seminar is a collaboration between the National Willa Cather Center and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Cather Project and Cather Archive.