Oct 5, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 4
WILLA CATHER Pavelka FarmsteadRed Cloud, Nebraska By Christine Pivovar Willa Cather’s My Ántonia (1918) contains the first written use of the word “kolaches” in English, according to the OED. It comes in at the end of the novel, when the narrator, Jim,...
Oct 5, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 4
WILLA CATHER Glacier Creek PreserveOmaha, Nebraska By Conor Gearin “The red of the grass made all the great prairie the color of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up.” One of Willa Cather’s most famous lines, from the 1918 novel My...
Oct 5, 2021 | Graves, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 4
WILLA CATHER Old Burying GroundJaffrey, New Hampshire By Catherine Seiberling Pond In her first known correspondence from Jaffrey, New Hampshire, Willa Cather wrote to her brother Roscoe on a postcard from the Shattuck Inn, “I am working well in this lovely country.”...
Oct 5, 2021 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Schools, Volume 4
WILLA CATHER The Fine Arts BuildingChicago, Illinois By Jesse Raber Chicago isn’t an iconic setting for Willa Cather, the great novelist of the prairies. Yet, in a sense, during Cather’s time Chicago writing was prairie writing. When H.L. Mencken crowned...
Sep 17, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Novelists, Personal Essay, Volume 2
Kate Chopin 4232 McPherson AvenueSt. Louis, Missouri By Michaella A. Thornton The Central West End neighborhood where Kate Chopin spent her final year boasts some of the loveliest homes in St. Louis, Missouri. Dormers and cornices and stained glass, lush gardens...