Gering kicked off its Independence Day celebration by unveiling a Willa Cather maquette that now stands outside the public ...

This month, two Willa Cather experts, Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout, are publishing the seven-hundred-page “Selected Letters of Willa Cather.” For Cather scholars, or even just fans, this is a big ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — About half of the more than 3,000 known letters penned by Pulitzer-winning novelist Willa Cather have been ...

When Charles Cather died in 2011, the copyrights went to the Willa Cather Trust and the Willa Cather Foundation, and "the ban on quotation and publication of the letters was quickly dropped, along ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 16—During her life, Willa Cather was "obsessed with her privacy," biographer Benjamin Taylor says. It was that obsession — an ...

In Webster County, Nebraska, the prairie rolls in waves, following the contours of a tableland gouged by rivers and creeks. At the southern edge of the county, a few hundred feet north of the Nebraska ...

It is reasonable to expect some howling dark secret to leap from the pages of Willa Cather’s letters, so long and zealously withheld from the prying eyes of the reading public have these letters been, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by These two titans of 20th-century literature and music formed a profound, yearslong relationship across generations and backgrounds. By Joshua Barone ...

A dozen novels, the first of which appeared in 1912, half a dozen honorary degrees, the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 1922, and the Prix Femina Americaine for 1933, all attest the literary achievement ...

How many of us have been assigned a book to read for a high school English class by a well-intentioned teacher and come away from the experience thinking, with all the conviction of heady youth, ...

Reporting from Red Cloud, Neb. — We entered Red Cloud from the east, just as novelist Willa Cather and her family did in 1884, when she was just 11 years old. The Cathers arrived by train at the ...