(AP) — A new National Willa Cather Center is being planned for the author’s Nebraska hometown of Red Cloud.

The Willa Cather Foundation said Tuesday the center will include a public museum, archive and arts and cultural center.

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is honorary national chairman for the public fundraising effort. The foundation must raise $144,000 by June 30 to meet a $400,000 challenge grant offered by the Peter Kiewit Foundation of Omaha.

Cather is celebrated as the author of “O Pioneers” and other books influenced by her life in Nebraska and Virginia and her travels. She’d been born in 1873 in Frederick County, Va., and lived for nine years in Back Creek Valley before moving with her family to Nebraska. The family resettled to Red Cloud in 1885.