Willa Cather Educational Posters, Books, Links for Learning

	• WILLA CATHER EDUCATIONAL POSTERS Literature and Language Arts Posters
		Willa Cather, American Authors of the 20th Century - Wall Poster " . . . there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before..."- O Pioneers! available at- Art.com AllPosters.com • more American Authors of the 20th Century
		My Antonia by Willa Cather History Through Literature -Wall Poster "Cautiously I slipped from under the buffalo hide, got up on my knees and peered over the side of the wagon. There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields, If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made." My Antonia available at- Art.com AllPosters.com • more History Through Literature Posters
		Willa S. Cather/TIME August 3, 1931 available at- barewalls.com
		Old Aeromotor Windmill in Golden Field / CORBIS available at- barewalls.com
	• Famous Women posters • more Women Writers posters • Nebraska Posters

“Where there is great love there are always miracles.” Willa Cather
b. 12-7-1873; Virginia
d. 4-24-1947

Books & video about and by Willa Cather

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather - this powerful early Cather novel, a landmark of American fiction, tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they have struggled to farm. In Alexandra’s lifelong fight to survive and succeed, Cather relates an important chapter in the history of the American frontier, evoking the harsh grandeur of the prairie, and comparing with keen insight the experiences of Swedish, French and Bohemian immigrants in the United States.

O Pioneers! Video (1992)

My Antonia by Willa Cather - In Willa Cather's own estimation, My Antonia, first published in 1918, was "the best thing I've ever done." This hauntingly eloquent classic now boasts a new foreword by Kathleen Norris, Cather's soulmate of the plains. Infused with a gracious passion for the land, My Antonia embraces its uncommon subject - the hardscrabble life of the pioneer woman on the prairie - with poetic certitude, rendering a deeply moving portrait of an entire community. Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society's heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia Shimerda.

My Antonia, Video, 1995

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather - a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.

Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter

LINKS FOR LEARNING : WILLA CATHER

Willa Cather
Intro to Life and Writings of Willa Cather
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial & Educational Foundation
Willa Cather Electronic Archive
Willa Cather State Historic Site