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National Willa Cather Center
Red Cloud, Nebraska; Webster County
“Miss Cather is Nebraska’s foremost citizen,” wrote author and Nobel Prize-winner Sinclair Lewis. “The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather’s books.”
Willa Cather was one of America’s most significant writers. She is known for her novels set in Nebraska and on the Great Plains. Her most notable works are My Ántonia, O Pioneers!, and One of Ours, which earned Cather a Pulitzer Prize. Cather lived in Red Cloud, Nebraska. She was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1962.
In 2017, the National Willa Cather Center opened as an arts and cultural center that serves as a living memorial to renowned writer, Willa Cather. Located in Cather’s childhood hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, the Center provides almost 20,000 square feet of space that includes a public museum, archive, research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red Cloud’s historic “Moon Block,” an 1887 structure that was fully restored and given new life as the National Willa Cather Center.
Information from WillaCather.org
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