During his long stay to Isleta, he met celebrities of this time like the royal family of Belgium, Willa Cather and George Wharton James among others.
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In Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, he served as a model for the character of Padre Jesus de Baca.
The experience of German immigrants in Omaha and throughout Nebraska is said to have deeply influenced Willa Cather.
Willa Cather's 1900 short story The Affair at Grover Station contains a description of Grover, as per, 'You know what Grover is, a red box of a station, section house barricaded by coal sheds and a little group of dwellings at the end of everything, with the desert running out on every side to the sky line.'.
She has edited and introduced numerous editions and anthologies of Kipling, Trollope, Virginia Woolf, Stevie Smith, Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, and Penelope Fitzgerald.
He is buried in the local cemetery, together with bandbox craftswoman Hannah Davis, and author and summer resident Willa Cather.
His life was the basis for the character Joseph Vaillant in Willa Cather's 1927 novel Death Comes For The Archbishop.
Willa Cather, Alexander's Bridge with introduction, notes, and chronology (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
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Willa Cather, O Pioneers! with introduction, notes, and chronology (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
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She is a prominent scholar of American writer Willa Cather, a well-known blogger, and the editor of a forthcoming scholarly collection engaging with the phenomenon of blogs.
In the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather, the professor Gaston Cleric contracts a fever after spending the night outdoors admiring "the sea temples at Paestum."
The author's interest eventually leaned toward the controversial which was sparked by the defaming novel, Death Comes to the Archbishop, written by Willa Cather in which she tainted the image of Hispanic New Mexicans and their heroes.
He also wrote two symphonies, five film scores, song cycles, piano pieces, chamber music, and five stage works: an operetta, The Kingdom of Caraway (1957), a musical, Out to the Wind (1979, based on Willa Cather's short story "Eric Hermannson's Soul"), and three operas, The Sweetwater Affair (1960, produced 1961), The Number of Fools (1965–66, rev. 1976), and Napoleon (1972, produced 1973) (Smith 2006, 12).
McClure's Magazine published influential pieces by respected journalists and authors including Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Burton J. Hendrick, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Willa Cather, and Lincoln Steffens.
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They are best known today for their close friendship with such prominent figures of the time as D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather and the Nehru family.
It is a thematically arranged collection, in the style of James Joyce’s Dubliners (1914), Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919), and Willa Cather’s Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920).
In October 2009, Harbach's opera O Pioneers!, based upon the Willa Cather novel of the same name, received its world premiere at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
A fictionalized account of the cathedral's origins is included in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Urgo's research interests focus on the works of 20th-century American novelists and writers William Faulkner and Willa Cather.
In 2008, Laura presented "A Wagner Matinee," an evening-length work based on the writings of Willa Cather.
McCall's published fiction by such well-known authors as Alice Adams, Ray Bradbury, Gelett Burgess, Willa Cather, Jack Finney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Barbara Garson, John Steinbeck, Tim O'Brien, Anne Tyler and Kurt Vonnegut.
The "White Mulberry Tree" is title of a crucial chapter in Willa Cather's 1913 novel, O Pioneers!, in which two forbidden lovers are killed, a reference to the story of Pyramus and Thisbe.
In the third section, "Conversational Portraits", Capote recalls his encounters with Pearl Bailey, Bobby Beausoleil, Willa Cather, Marilyn Monroe and others.
Willa Cather migrated in 1883 with her family to the plains of Nebraska.
O'Brien worked with Masterpiece to produce Masterpiece Theatre's American Collection, a series of television adaptations of American novels, including The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, Cora Unashamed by Langston Hughes, The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty, A Death in the Family by James Agee, and Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago.
The press is publisher of the scholarly editions of the works of Willa Cather, including the classics My Antonia and O Pioneers!.
Among the contributors to the magazine were editor Gene Gauntier, and authors Temple Bailey, Ellis Parker Butler, Rachel Carson, Arthur Guiterman, Shirley Jackson, Anita Loos, Neysa McMein, Kathleen Norris, Sylvia Schur, John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, and P. G. Wodehouse.