įor building locations on the Williams campus, please consult the map outside the driveway entrance to the Security Office located in Hopkins Hall on Main Street (Rte. For more information, phone 41 during library hours, e-mail to, or go to the Library web site at. Adjacent parking is available behind Thompson Memorial Chapel. The Chapin Library is located on the second floor of Stetson Hall, north of Main Street on the Williams College campus. “‘She Loved All Great Formal, Noble Things’: A Willa Cather Miscellany” is on view in the Chapin Library through the end of February 2005. She was concerned for the appearance and marketing of her books as well as their content, and often had a hand in the design of dust-jackets and the writing of blurbs. Its wide range of exhibits demonstrates the extent of Cather’s very successful career as well as her own involvement in its progress. Payne Visiting Professor of Liberal Arts at Williams College, and organized by Professor Porter, includes all of Cather’s major writings in various editions and forms, as well as related manuscript and promotional materials.
The Chapin Library exhibition, drawn largely from the Willa Cather collection of David H. Cather continued to write novels, essays, and other works until her death in 1947, with some books appearing posthumously. Her first novel, “Alexander’s Bridge,” published in 1912, was followed in 1913 by “O Pioneers!” set on the Nebraska prairies, in 1915 by “The Song of the Lark,” and in 1918 by “My Ántonia.” Her 1922 novel, “One of Ours,” won the Pulitzer Prize. This was followed by a volume of short stories, “The Troll Garden,” in 1905. She published her first book of poetry, “April Twilights,” in 1903. 10, 2005 - The notable and popular 20th-century American author Willa Cather is the subject of the winter exhibition at the Chapin Library of Rare Books, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.īorn in Virginia, Cather moved with her family to the Midwest, where she attended the University of Nebraska and was an outspoken drama critic. Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant tele: (413) 597-4277 email:
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