Historian Hugh Ryan

“The Two Greenwich Villages: Willa Cather’s New York City in a Time of Transition”

Join us at the 18th International Willa Cather Seminar for this free and engaging talk about the Greenwich Village surroundings that harbored and helped foster Cather’s life and career. Hugh’s book, The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison is also available in our online bookstore.

Hugh Ryan

Hugh Ryan is a writer, historian, and curator in New York City. His most recent book, The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, is a queer history of the Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village, the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired. It is the winner of the 2023 Stonewall Book Award/Israel Fishman Award for Nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle of the American Library Association, as well as the 2022 Warren Johansson Award from the W.A. Percy Foundation.

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.