O Pioneers! Resources
Websites
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This is the place to go for the latest news on Willa Cather.
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And here's where you should go for the latest material on Willa Cather. A great resource for academic research.
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This biographic essay gives a nice overview of Cather's life and her writing.
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Here is another overview of Cather's life, with a list of sources for more exploration.
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This map, kindly provided by the Willa Cather Archive, shows every place ever visited by Willa Cather. Wow, now those are some devoted fans.
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The National Geographic Travel site on Nebraska—with pictures. You can be a tourist without even leaving your house.
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Wondering what it was like? (So was Shmoop.)
Movie or TV Productions
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Check out the IMDb page for this 1992 TV production of Cather's novel. It won an Emmy for music composition.
Articles and Interviews
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A New York Times article from March, 2013, discussing the publication of Willa Cather's private letters.
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This article includes some excerpts from Cather's letters to her partner of 40 years, Edith White.
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Here, you can read a review of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (eds. Andre Jewell and Janis Stout), written by Hermione Lee.
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Well, that says it all. She died April 24, 1947.
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This Willa Cather Foundation website includes a number of different articles about Cather. (Though the website's banner might make you dizzy…)
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The Willa Cather Archive has a large number of interviews with Cather, published during her lifetime. Check them out.
Video
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Cather's private letters were recently published for the first time (see the articles, above). Here's a short series about her letters.
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This is a short clip about the Nebraska prairieland and the threats to its preservation.
Audio
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If you're itching to hear the novel spoken aloud, you may now… stop itching and start scratching.
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Cather won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her novel One of Ours. Here, you can listen to her giving a speech at the 1933 award ceremony.
Images
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Check out Cather, looking dashing in a feathered hat.
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If you're up for a trip to Frederick County, VA, you can visit her house.
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Here's the place Cather lived after her family moved to Red Cloud, NE, in 1884. Cather was 11 years old.
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Here's Cather on the cover of Time Magazine, from Aug. 3, 1931. Work it, girl.
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Attention collectors. This stamp was issued in 1973.
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Check out these awesome pictures of the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, a nature reserve in south central Nebraska. It's nice to keep these in mind when reading all those pastoral passages in O Pioneers!
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Take a look. Settlers often built these homes because there were so few trees on the prairie.