User:MauraWen/sandbox American writer birthplaces
Appearance
List of residences of American writers
Alabama
[edit]Writer | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Truman Capote | The Faulk home site | 1927–1933 | Monroeville 31°31′26″N 87°19′26″W / 31.52395°N 87.32389°W |
Capote lived with his mother's relatives in the Faulk home from 1927 to 1933 and spent several summers here after 1933.[1] | |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum | 1931–1932 | Montgomery 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. This is also the last home the Fitzeralds lived together as a family.[2] |
California
[edit]Writer | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Robinson Jeffers | Tor house | 1919–1962 | Carmel 36°32′31.5″N 121°55′56″W / 36.542083°N 121.93222°W |
Jeffers's entire work was written here.[3] | |
Jack London | Wolf house and ranch | 1905–1913 | Glen Ellen 38°21′2″N 122°32′35″W / 38.35056°N 122.54306°W |
Today, there are only remains of the mansion, which was destroyed in a fire in 1913.[4] | |
Eugene O'Neill | O'Neill home | 1937–1944 | Danville 37°49′28″N 122°1′47″W / 37.82444°N 122.02972°W |
O'Neill wrote several plays in this house, including The Iceman Cometh and A Moon for the Misbegotten.[5] | |
Upton Sinclair | Sinclair house | 1942–1966 | Monrovia 34°9′44″N 118°0′0″W / 34.16222°N 118.00000°W |
Sinclair wrote many of his later novels in this house.[6] | |
John Steinbeck | Steinbeck house | 1902–1919 | Salinas 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.[7] |
Connecticut
[edit]Writer | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Eugene O'Neill | Monte Cristo Cottage | 1900–1920 | New London 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.[8] | |
Mark Twain | Twain House | 1874–1891 | Hartford 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.[9] | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Stowe House | 1873–1896 | Hartford 41°46′1.14″N 72°42′2.81″W / 41.7669833°N 72.7007806°W |
Stowe spent the last 23 years of her life in this house.[10] | |
Noah Webster | Webster house | 1758-1774 | West Hartford 41°44′46.27″N 72°44′47.4″W / 41.7461861°N 72.746500°W |
Webster's birthplace. He lived in the house until he left for college.[11] |
Florida
[edit]Writer | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Ernest Hemingway | Key West house | 1931–1939 | Key West 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.[12] | |
Zora Neale Hurston | Zora Neale Hurston House | 1957–1960 | Fort Pierce 27°27′39″N 80°20′31″W / 27.46083°N 80.34194°W |
This is the only surviving home of Hurston.[13] | |
Jack Kerouac | Jack Kerouac House | 1957–1958 | Orlando 28°33′52″N 81°23′30″W / 28.56444°N 81.39167°W |
Kerouac wrote Dharma Bums in this small cottage.[14] | |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Cross Creek house | 1929–1953 | Cross Creek 29°28′53″N 82°9′37″W / 29.48139°N 82.16028°W |
The Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Yearling, was written by Rawlings in her cracker-style house.[15] |
Georgia
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Joel Chandler Harris | Wren's Nest | 1881–1908 | Atlanta 33°44′16″N 84°25′20″W / 33.73764°N 84.42219°W |
Harris is the author of the legendary Uncle Remus tales.[16] | |
Margaret Mitchell | Margaret Mitchell House and Museum | 1925–1932 | Atlanta 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.[17] | |
Flannery O'Connor (1) | O'Connor Childhood Home | 1925–1938 | Savannah 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.[18] | |
Flannery O'Connor (2) | Andalusia farm | 1951–1964 | Milledgeville 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.[19] |
Illinois
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Gwendolyn Brooks | image needed | Brooks House--Chicago | 1953–1994 | Chicago 41°45′35″N 87°36′25″W / 41.75959°N 87.60698°W |
20th century poet and teacher. First Black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950).[20] Private residence. |
Ernest Hemingway | Birthplace of Ernest Hemingway | 1899–1905 | Oak Park 41°53′34″N 87°47′42″W / 41.892778°N 87.795081°W |
American novelist and journalist. Awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.[21] | |
Vachel Lindsay | Vachel Lindsay House | 1879–1931 | Springfield 39°47′46″N 89°38′59″W / 39.79616°N 89.64964°W |
American poet known for his performance poetry.[22] | |
Carl Sandburg | Birthplace of Carl Sandburg | 1878–1896 | Galesburg 40°56′11″N 90°21′57″W / 40.93650°N 90.36583°W |
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer.[23] |
Louisiana
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Robert Penn Warren | Robert Penn Warren House | 1941–1942 | Prairieville 30°18′30″N 90°58′25″W / 30.30823°N 90.9736°W |
The private residence, known as Twin Oaks, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
Maine
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Stephen King | Stephen and Tabitha King home | 1980–present | Bangor 44°48′09″N 68°47′06″W / 44.80251°N 68.78501°W |
The Victorian mansion lies in Bangor's Whitney Park Historic District. | |
Sarah Orne Jewett | Jewett-Eastman House | 1850-? | South Berwick43°14′6″N 70°48′33″W / 43.23500°N 70.80917°W | Jewett's childhood home. She is best known for "The Country of the Pointed Firs" (1896) and “A White Heron,” (1886).[24] | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Stowe House | 1850-1852 | Brunswick 43°54′46″N 69°57′39″W / 43.91278°N 69.96083°W |
Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in this home.[25] | |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Wadsworth-Longfellow House | 1807–1842 | Portland 43°39′25″N 70°15′37″W / 43.65693°N 70.26020°W |
Childhood home of legendery poet, whose work includes "Paul Revere's Ride" and the "The Song of Hiawatha".[26] |
Maryland
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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H.L. Mencken | H. L. Mencken House | 1883–1956 | Baltimore 39°17′15.2″N 76°38′30.6″W / 39.287556°N 76.641833°W |
The house was opened to the public in 2019. | |
Rachel Carson | Carson House, Colesville | 1956–1964 | Colesville 39°2′48″N 77°0′2″W / 39.04667°N 77.00056°W |
Carson wrote her legendary work, "Silent Spring", in this house in 1962.[27] | |
Edgar Allan Poe | Poe House, Baltimore | 1833–1835 | Baltimore 39°17′29″N 76°37′59″W / 39.29150°N 76.63319°W |
Poe moved into his aunt Elizabeth's rental house in 1833 after he graduated from Westpoint Military Academy.[28] | |
Gertrude Stein | David Bachrach House | 1892 | Baltimore 39°18′50.6″N 76°38′9.5″W / 39.314056°N 76.635972°W |
The Bachrach house, also known as the Gertrude Stein house, is not open to the public. Stein was a neice of Mrs. David Bachrach. |
Massachusetts
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Location | Notes |
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E. E. Cummings | E. E. Cummings House | 1894–1917 | Cambridge 42°22′43.6″N 71°6′38.5″W / 42.378778°N 71.110694°W |
The childhood home of the author and poet, Cummings lived here until he graduated from Harvard University in 1917.[29] | |
Edward Gorey | The Elephant House | 1986–2000 | Cape Cod 41°42′19″N 70°14′33″W / 41.70528°N 70.24250°W |
The house is a museum displaying Gorey's life and work.[30] | |
Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson Museum | 1855–1886 | Amherst 42°22′34″N 72°30′52″W / 42.37611°N 72.51444°W |
After Dickinson's death, 1800 poems were discovered in her room by her sister, Lavinia.[31] | |
Louisa May Alcott (1) | The Wayside formerly known as 'Hillside' | 1844–1848 | Concord 42°27′32″N 71°19′59″W / 42.45889°N 71.33306°W |
Alcott used many of the experiences she and her sisters shared in this house in her book, Little Women. Nathaniel Hawthorne purchased the house from the Alcotts when they moved to Boston in 1848.[32] | |
Louisa May Alcott (2) | Orchard House | 1858–1877 | Concord 42°27′32″N 71°20′06″W / 42.4589°N 71.3351°W |
This home is adjacent to Nathaniel Hawthorne's home, The Wayside. Alcott wrote Little Women in this house (1868–1869).[33] | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ralph Waldo Emerson House | 1835–1882 | Concord 42°27′27″N 71°20′39″W / 42.45750°N 71.34417°W |
Emerson and his wife moved to this house after their wedding. He lived here the rest of his life.[34] | |
Herman Melville | Arrowhead (Herman Melville House) | 1850–1863 | Pittsfield 42°24′55.4″N 73°14′55.7″W / 42.415389°N 73.248806°W |
Melville wrote his most famous novels at Arrowhead.[35] | |
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1) | Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace | 1804–1808 | Salem 42°31′17.36″N 70°53′03.11″W / 42.5214889°N 70.8841972°W |
Hawthorne and his mother moved from the house after his father died in 1808.[36] | |
Nathaniel Hawthorne (2) | The Wayside | 1852–1869 | Concord 42°27′32″N 71°19′59″W / 42.45889°N 71.33306°W |
Wayside was the home to Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Sidney. Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter and the House of the Seven Gables here.[37] | |
Henry David Thoreau | Thoreau–Alcott House | 1850–1862 | Concord 42°27′30″N 71°21′30″W / 42.45833°N 71.35833°W |
Thoreau moved to the house with his family in 1850 and lived here until his death. The house is privately owned.[38] | |
Edith Wharton | The Mount | 1902-1911 | Lenox 42°19′52″N 73°16′55″W / 42.3311°N 73.2820°W |
Wharton designed both the house and garden, inspired by works of art.[39] |
Michigan
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Ernest Hemingway | Windemere Cottage | 1900–1921 | Petoskey 45°16′51″N 85°00′04″W / 45.28081°N 85.00108°W |
The cottage was used during Hemingway's childhood as his family's summer home. Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson spent their honeymoon in the cottage. It is a private residence.[40] | |
Theodore Roethke | Roethke Houses | 1911–1925 | Saginaw 43°25′00″N 83°59′14″W / 43.41667°N 83.98722°W |
The house at 1759 Gratiot was known as The Stone House and was built by Roethke's uncle Carl. The house next door, at 1805 Gratiot, is Roethke's childhood home, and was built by his father, Otto. Roethke's sister, June, lived in the house until her death in 1997.[41] |
Minnesota
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald | F. Scott Fitzgerald House | 1918–1920 | Saint Paul 44°56′29.5″N 93°7′30.5″W / 44.941528°N 93.125139°W |
Fitzgerald re-wrote the draft of his first novel, This Side of Paradise in this house.[42] | |
Sinclair Lewis | Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home | 1889–1902 | Sauk Centre 45°44′14″N 94°57′26.5″W / 45.73722°N 94.957361°W |
Lewis's boyhood home. He is the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.[43][44] |
Mississippi
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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William Faulkner | Rowan Oak | 1930–1962 | Oxford 34°21′35″N 89°31′29″W / 34.3598°N 89.5247°W |
Faulkner penciled the plot of his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Fable, on the plaster walls of his office.[45] | |
Eudora Welty | Eudora Welty House | 1925–2001 | Jackson 32°19′7.7″N 90°10′13.22″W / 32.318806°N 90.1703389°W |
Welty's parents built the house in 1925. This is where she lived here for nearly 80 years, entertained friends and family, worked in her garden and wrote her award winning novels and short stories.[46] |
Missouri
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes | |
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Laura Ingalls Wilder | Laura Ingalls Wilder House | 1896–1957 | Mansfield 37°06′06″N 92°33′24″W / 37.10160°N 92.55678°W |
Wilder wrote the Little House on the Prairie books while living in the house.[47] | ||
Mark Twain | Mark Twain boyhood home | 1844–1853 | Hannibal 39°42′43″N 91°21′28″W / 39.71205°N 91.35786°W |
Twain's life in Hannibal inspired his writing of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.[48] | ||
Maya Angelou | Maya Angelou birthplace | 1928-1931 | St. Louis 38°37′22″N 90°13′47″W / 38.62278°N 90.22970°W |
The birthplace of writer, Maya Angelou.[49] |
Nebraska
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Willa Cather | Willa Cather House | 1883–1890 | Red Cloud 40°5′16″N 98°31′16″W / 40.08778°N 98.52111°W |
Cather's childhood home. Her first two homes, the Willa Cather Birthplace and Willow Shade are in Virginia. She lived in the Nebrasa home until she left college in 1890.[50] |
New Hamsphire
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Robert Frost | Robert Frost Farm (Derry, New Hampshire) | 1900–1911 | Derry 42°52′18″N 71°17′42″W / 42.87167°N 71.29500°W |
Frost wrote the majority of his poems from A Boy's Will and North of Boston in this house.[51] | |
Robert Frost | The Frost Place | 1911-1920 | Franconia 44°12′46″N 71°45′27″W / 44.21278°N 71.75750°W |
The family lived in the house until 1920 and then spent the next 20 years spending their summers here.[52] |
New Jersey
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Stephen Crane | Stephen Crane house | 1883–1892 | Asbury 40°13′27″N 74°00′24″W / 40.22404°N 74.00679°W |
Crane began his writing career in this Asbury Park house.[53] | |
Walt Whitman | Walt Whitman House | 1884–1892 | Camden 39°56′33″N 75°7′26″W / 39.94250°N 75.12389°W |
The only house that Whitman owned.[54] | |
William Carlos Williams | William Carlos Williams House | 1913–1963 | Rutherford 40°49′36″N 74°6′18″W / 40.82667°N 74.10500°W |
The poet and physician lived and worked in this house for 50 years.[55] |
New Mexico
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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D.H. Lawrence | D.H. Lawrence Ranch | 1920s | Near Taos , 36°35′00″N 105°35′41″W / 36.58339°N 105.59478°W |
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New York
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James Baldwin | 120px | dates | coord | ||
Truman Capote | 120px | dates | coord | ||
F. Scott Fitzgerald | dates | coord | |||
Washington Irving | 120px | dates | coord | ||
Langston Hughes | dates | coord | |||
James Weldon Johnson | 120px | dates | coord | ||
Carson McCullers | Carson McCullers House | dates | coord | ||
Gertrude Stein | 120px | dates | coord | ||
Walt Whitman | Walt Whitman Birthplace | dates | coord |
Herman Melville House (Troy, New York)
North Carolina
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Carl Sandburg | Carl Sandburg Home | 1945–1967 | 35°16′17″N 82°26′50″W / 35.27145°N 82.44723°W | notes | |
Thomas Wolfe | Thomas Wolfe House | 1906–1916 | 35°35′51″N 82°33′03″W / 35.59750°N 82.55083°W | Wolfe lived in his boyhood home until he left for college. |
Ohio
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar | Paul Laurence Dunbar House | 1904–1906 | 39°45′27.6″N 84°13′8.2″W / 39.757667°N 84.218944°W | notes |
Oregon
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Zane Grey | Zane Grey Cabin | 1926–1935 | 42°42′06″N 123°48′17″W / 42.70179°N 123.80477°W | Grey's writing cabin on the Rogue River. | |
Ken Kesey | no image | Pleasant Hill Farm | 1965–2001? | Pleasant hill near Eugene Oregon | notes |
Pennsylvania
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Rachel Carson | Rachel Carson Homestead | 1907–1929 | 40°32′47.15″N 79°47′0.07″W / 40.5464306°N 79.7833528°W | Carson's birthplace and childhood home. | |
Pearl S. Buck (2) | Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark | 1933–late 1960s | 40°21′36″N 75°13′11″W / 40.36000°N 75.21972°W | Buck lived in this home for 40 years. | |
John Updike | John Updike Childhood Home | 1932–1945 | 40°18′08″N 75°57′54″W / 40.30222°N 75.96500°W | Updike's birthplace. |
Texas
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Katherine Ann Porter | Katherine Anne Porter House | 1892–1901 | 29°59′21″N 97°52′46″W / 29.98917°N 97.87944°W | Katherine's father moved his family to his mother's house in Kyle after Katherine's mother died. | |
O. Henry | William Sidney Porter House | 1893–1895 | 30°15′56.5″N 97°44′20.8″W / 30.265694°N 97.739111°W | notes |
Washington D.C.
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- Henry Longfellow house
Vermont
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Robert Frost (3) | Robert Frost Farm (Ripton, Vermont) | 1939–1963 Summers only | 43°57′59″N 73°0′17″W / 43.96639°N 73.00472°W | Frost resided here in the summer and fall months. Bennington College. | |
Robert Frost (4) | Robert Frost Stone House Museum) | 1920-1929 | 42°56′10″N 73°12′34″W / 42.93621°N 73.20953°W | ||
Rudyard Kipling | Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House) | 42°53′55″N 72°33′51″W / 42.89861°N 72.56417°W | |||
Shirley Jackson | Shirley Jackson house | Prospect st North Bennington | coord | ||
Shirley Jackson | Shirley Jackson house | 1953-1965 Main Street North Bennington | coord |
Virginia
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Willa Cather (1) | Willa Cather Birthplace | 1873–1874 | 39°16′3″N 78°19′27″W / 39.26750°N 78.32417°W | Willa Cather birthplace. | |
Willa Cather (2) | Willow Shade | 1874–1883 | 39°16′06.7″N 78°18′28.7″W / 39.268528°N 78.307972°W | Cather's childhood home. The family moved to Nebraska in 1883. | |
Ellen Glasgow | Ellen Glasgow House | 1890s–1945 | 37°32′34″N 77°26′42″W / 37.54278°N 77.44500°W | Pulitzer prize winning novelist. |
West Virginia
[edit]Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Pearl S. Buck (1) | Pearl S. Buck Birthplace | 38°8′30″N 80°12′19″W / 38.14167°N 80.20528°W | 1892 | Buck's birthplace. When she was four months old, her family moved to China. |
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