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Celebrating Juneteenth
… the breadbasket of the Confederacy, the bitter divisions of slavery and the Civil War are still evident. Willa Cather told a portion of that story in her 1940 novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, which was based on the Cathers' own family …
Posted: 06/16/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents Table of Contents This Table of Contents for the Willa Cather Review was compiled by Virgil and Dolores …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023
Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published
… novelists of the 20th century. Her first volume of poetry, April Twilights, was published by a vanity press in 1903. Over the … Girl (1940). Cather died from a cerebral hemorrhage on April 24, 1947 and was buried in the Old Burying Ground in …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame
… Image Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame … buildings devoted to one author in the United States. Both town and country tours of sites related to Cather are available; for more …
Posted: 12/29/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner
… She has also read O Pioneers! and she has a copy of Sapphira and the Slave Girl and the Selected Letters in her stack of books to read …
Posted: 09/24/2019
Last Updated: 09/26/2019
Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge
… on the Rock (1931) November: Lucy Gayheart (1935) December: Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) CLICK HERE to purchase one or more of the …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015
"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"
… supper based on Cather's Nebraska story, " The Bohemian Girl . " O Pioneers! and " The Bohemian Girl " will be the … as agriculture in other regions, as in Shadows on the Rock, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Death Comes for the Archbishop Cookbooks (The …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/16/2014
Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame
… Image Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame … nine authors into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Willa Cather was among this prestigious group of seven … Willa Cather (1873-1947) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who first achieved national recognition for …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 09/15/2014