Description: The Willa Cather Foundation is a not-for-profit organization created in 1955 that owns and operates the National Willa Cather Center and the nation's largest collection of nationally-designated historic sites dedicated to an American author.
Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. Seen as a regional writer for decades after her passing in 1947, critics have increasingly identified Cather as a canonical American writer, the peer of authors like Hemingway, Faulkner and Wharton.
The Willa Cather Foundation is a not-for-profit organization created in 1955 that owns and operates the National Willa Cather Center and the nation's largest collection of nationally-designated historic sites dedicated to an American author.
The National Willa Cather Center is commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th birthday with a host of special events across the country. This monumental year is also the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours , as well as the publication centenaries for A Lost Lady and April Twilights and Other Poems .