My Ántonia
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Web sites

The Willa Cather Electronic Archive
This superb site includes a wonderful photo gallery, as well as interviews, speeches, and biographical information.

Willa Cather Foundation
Teachers will find many helpful links to the study and teaching of Willa Cather.

Teaching Cather
A biannual publication of the Willa Cather Foundation for educators.

NebraskaStudies.org
The perfect site if you are interested in deepening your students’ understanding of the pioneer experience in Nebraska.

Books
The W.T. Benda illustrations, reprinted as Willa Cather desired, are featured in the scholarly edition of My Ántonia, published by the University of Nebraska Press, edited by Charles Mignon with Kari A. Ronning.

Biography and Criticism
Acocella, Joan. Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Bennett, Mildred R. The World of Willa Cather. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

Lewis, Edith. Willa Cather Living: A Personal Record. Introduction by John J. Murphy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

O’Brien, Sharon. New Essays on My Ántonia. Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Woodress, James. Willa Cather: A Literary Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Especially for Teachers

Cather,Willa. Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.

Curtin,William M., ed. The World and the Parish: Willa Cather’s Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.

Murphy, John J. My Ántonia: The Road Home. Boston: Twayne, 1989.

Rosowski, Susan J., ed. Approaches to Teaching Cather’s My Ántonia. New York: Modern Language Association, 1989.

Urgo, Joseph R. Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Videos
Willa Cather: The Road Is All. The American Masters series by PBS, 2005.