O Pioneers! Resources

This is the place to go for the latest news on Willa Cather.

And here's where you should go for the latest material on Willa Cather. A great resource for academic research.

This biographic essay gives a nice overview of Cather's life and her writing.

Here is another overview of Cather's life, with a list of sources for more exploration.

This map, kindly provided by the Willa Cather Archive, shows every place ever visited by Willa Cather. Wow, now those are some devoted fans.

The National Geographic Travel site on Nebraska—with pictures. You can be a tourist without even leaving your house.

Wondering what it was like? (So was Shmoop.)

Check out the IMDb page for this 1992 TV production of Cather's novel. It won an Emmy for music composition. 

A New York Times article from March, 2013, discussing the publication of Willa Cather's private letters.

This article includes some excerpts from Cather's letters to her partner of 40 years, Edith White.

Here, you can read a review of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (eds. Andre Jewell and Janis Stout), written by Hermione Lee.

Well, that says it all. She died April 24, 1947.

This Willa Cather Foundation website includes a number of different articles about Cather. (Though the website's banner might make you dizzy…)

The Willa Cather Archive has a large number of interviews with Cather, published during her lifetime. Check them out.

Cather's private letters were recently published for the first time (see the articles, above). Here's a short series about her letters.

This is a short clip about the Nebraska prairieland and the threats to its preservation.

If you're itching to hear the novel spoken aloud, you may now… stop itching and start scratching.

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.

Check out Cather, looking dashing in a feathered hat.

If you're up for a trip to Frederick County, VA, you can visit her house.

Here's the place Cather lived after her family moved to Red Cloud, NE, in 1884. Cather was 11 years old.

Here's Cather on the cover of Time Magazine, from Aug. 3, 1931. Work it, girl.

Attention collectors. This stamp was issued in 1973.

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!

Take a look. Settlers often built these homes because there were so few trees on the prairie.