The Willa Cather Foundation
The National Willa Cather Center is dedicated to advancing Willa Cather's legacy through education, preservation, and the arts. The National Willa Cather Center serves as a living memorial to renowned writer Willa Cather. To enrich lives by advancing Willa Cather's legacy locally and beyond through education, preservation, and the arts. The Willa Cather Foundation is located in Cather's childhood hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska. It serves this region, as well as readers, scholars, visitors, and students from across the nation and internationally.
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National Willa Cather Center - Red Cloud, NE User account menu User account menu Main navigation Welcome to the home of Willa Cather Willa Cather Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first half of thetwentieth century. Seen as a regional writer for decades after her passing in 1947 criticshave increasingly identified Cather as a canonical American writer the peer of authors likeHemingway Faulkner and Wharton. The Willa Cather Foundation is a notforprofit organization created in 1955 that owns and operates the National Willa Cather Center and the nations largest collection of nationallydesignated historic sites dedicated to an American author. The Big Read of My Antonia Willa Cathers My Antonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts NEA for their 2024 Big Read initiative.
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