List of residences of American writers
Alabama edit
Writer | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Truman Capote | Monroeville | 1927–1933 | 31°31′26″N 87°19′26″W / 31.52395°N 87.32389°W | Capote spent several summers here after 1933.[1] | |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | Montgomery | 1931–1932 | 32°21′32″N 86°17′32″W / 32.35883°N 86.29227°W | Fitzgerald worked on the novel, Tender Is The Night, in this house |
California edit
Writer | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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John Steinbeck | Steinbeck house, Salinas | 1902–1919. | 36°40′36″N 121°39′29″W / 36.67667°N 121.65806°W | Steinbeck's birthplace and childhood home. He completed The Red Pony and Tortilla Flat here in the 1930s.[2] | |
Jack London | Wolf house and ranch | 1905–1913 | 38°21′2″N 122°32′35″W / 38.35056°N 122.54306°W | The house was destroyed in a fire in 1913. | |
Eugene O'Neill | O'Neill home | 1937–1944 | 37°49′28″N 122°1′47″W / 37.82444°N 122.02972°W | O'Neill wrote several plays here, including The Iceman Cometh and A Moon for the Misbegotten.[3] | |
Robinson Jeffers | Tor house, Carmel | 1919–1962 | 36°32′31.5″N 121°55′56″W / 36.542083°N 121.93222°W | Jeffers's entire work was written here.[4] | |
Upton Sinclair | Sinclair house, Monrovia | 1942–1966 | 34°9′44″N 118°0′0″W / 34.16222°N 118.00000°W | Sinclair wrote many of his later novels in this house.[5] |
Connecticut edit
Writer | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Eugene O'Neill | Monte Cristo Cottage | 1900–1920 | 41°19′55″N 72°5′46.5″W / 41.33194°N 72.096250°W | O'Neill's summer childhood home and setting of two of his plays.[6] | |
Mark Twain | Twain House, Hartford | 1874–1891 | 41°46′1.5″N 72°42′5.0″W / 41.767083°N 72.701389°W | Twain wrote many of his most popular novels in this house.[7] | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Stowe House, Hartford | 1873–1896 | 41°46′1.14″N 72°42′2.81″W / 41.7669833°N 72.7007806°W | Stowe spent the last years of her life here. | |
Noah Webster | Webster house, Hartford | Built 1758 | 41°44′46.27″N 72°44′47.4″W / 41.7461861°N 72.746500°W | Webster's birthplace.[8] |
Florida edit
Writer | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Ernest Hemingway | Key West house | 1931–1939 | 24°33′05″N 81°48′02″W / 24.55143°N 81.80061°W | The site is inhabited by dozens of six-toed cats, known locally as Hemingway cats.[9] | |
Zora Neale Hurston | Fort Pierce house | 1957–1960 | 27°27′39″N 80°20′31″W / 27.46083°N 80.34194°W | This is the only surviving home of Hurston.[10] | |
Jack Kerouac | Orlando house | 1957–1958 | 28°33′52″N 81°23′30″W / 28.56444°N 81.39167°W | Kerouac wrote Dharma Bums in this small cottage.[11] | |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Cross Creek house | 1929–1953 | 29°28′53″N 82°9′37″W / 29.48139°N 82.16028°W | The Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Yearling, was penned in this cracker-style house. |
Georgia edit
Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Joel Chandler Harris | Wren's Nest, Atlanta | 1881–1908 | 33°44′16″N 84°25′20″W / 33.73764°N 84.42219°W | Harris wrote many books including the legendary Uncle Remus tales in this house. | |
Margaret Mitchell | Mitchell house, Atlanta | 1925–1932 | 33°46′53.02″N 84°23′4.62″W / 33.7813944°N 84.3846167°W | Mitchell wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning -novel Gone with the Wind here.[12] | |
Flannery O'Connor | O'Connor Childhood Home | 1925–1938 | 32°04′21″N 81°05′29″W / 32.07251°N 81.09146°W | Birthplace of O'Connor, the museum is open to the public.[13] | |
Flannery O'Connor | Andalusia farm | 1951–1964 | 33°07′31″N 83°16′04″W / 33.12526°N 83.26775°W | This area of Georgia was the setting for many of O'Connor's short stories.[14] |
Illinois edit
- Hemingway
Indiana edit
Maine edit
- Stephen King
- Sarah Orne Jewett, wp
- Ernest Hemingway
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Maryland edit
- Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Baltimore
- Rachel Carsons
Mass edit
- Edward Gorey House, Mass
- Emily Dickenson museum, Mass
- Louisa May Alcott, Orchard house, Mass
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Concord Mass
- Arrowhead (Herman Melville House), Mass
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, wp
- Thoreau–Alcott House, both authors, wp
- Edit Wharton home, wp
- Henry W Longfellow Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
- Sylvia Plath, private
Michiagan edit
- Hemingway summer home, wp
Minnesota edit
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Minnesota
- Sinclair Lewis, wp
Mississippi edit
- Rowan Oak William Faulkner
- Eudora Welty house, Jackson
- Tennessee Williams, Columbus
Missouri edit
- Laura Ingalls Wilder's Rocky Ridge Farm, Missouri
- Mark Twain boyhood home, wp
- Maya Angelou birthplace, St. Louis
Nebraska edit
- Willa Cather (birthplace VA)
New Hamsphire edit
- Robert Frost Farm
New Jersey edit
- Walt Whitman house, Camden
- Stephen Crane
- William Carlos Williams house, wp
New York edit
Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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James Baldwin | 120px | dates | coord | ||
Truman Capote | 120px | dates | coord | ||
Washington Irving | 120px | dates | coord | ||
Langston Hughes | 120px | dates | coord | ||
James Weldon Johnson | 120px | dates | coord | ||
Carson McCullers | 120px | Carson McCullers House | dates | coord | |
Gertrude Stein | 120px | dates | coord |
North Carolina edit
- Carl Sandburg, wp
- Thomas Wolfe, wp
Ohio edit
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar, poet, wp
- Toni Morrison, Lorain
Pennsylvania edit
- Rachel Carson (also Maryland)
Texas edit
Katherine Ann Porter, wp
Washington D.C. edit
- frederick douglas, Washington DC
Vermont edit
- Robert Frost Farm
- Shirley Jackson
- Rudyard Kipling
Virginia edit
- Ellen Glasgow, wp
- Willa Cather, wp
- Edgar Allen Poe
West Virginia edit
- Pearl S. Buck House, wp
Wisconsin edit
Hemingway house
References edit
- ^ "Truman Capote Historical Marker at Monroeville, AL". Rural SW Alabama. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- ^ "National Register #00000856 John Steinbeck House". National Register of Historic Places in Monterey. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- ^ McKinney, John. California's National Parks: A Day Hiker's Guide. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 2005: 136–137. ISBN 0-89997-387-6
- ^ "Tor House:History". Tor House.org. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- ^ Robert S. Gamble (July 20, 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Upton Sinclair House" (PDF). National Park Service.
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(help) - ^ "Eugene O'Neill: New London's Monte Cristo Cottage". Connecticut Explored. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- ^ "Mark Twain Chronology". PBS website. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
- ^ "Noah Webster Birthplace". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
- ^ Richardson, Laura. "Hemingway's six-toed cats". Key West Florida Weekly. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ Dr. Page Putnam Miller (June 19, 1991). "National Historic Landmark Nomination: Hurston, Zora Neale House".
- ^ "Jack Kerouac house". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ "Crescent Apartments--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
- ^ "Flannery O'Connor". Georgia Historical Society. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
- ^ "Andalusia Farm". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 27 July 2023.