User:MauraWen/sandbox American writer birthplaces
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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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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.[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] |
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.[4] |
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.[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]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Gwendolyn Brooks | Brooks House--Chicago | 1953–1994 | 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).[15] | |
Ernest Hemingway | ![]() |
Birthplace of Ernest Hemingway | 1899–1905 | 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.[16] |
Vachel Lindsay | ![]() |
Vachel Lindsay House | 1879–1931 | 39°47′46″N 89°38′59″W / 39.79616°N 89.64964°W | American poet known for his performance poetry.[17] |
Carl Sandburg | ![]() |
Birthplace of Carl Sandburg | 1878–1896 | 40°56′11″N 90°21′57″W / 40.93650°N 90.36583°W | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer.[18] |
Richard Wright | image | Richard Wright House, Chicago | 1929–1932 4831 S. Vincennes Ave | 40°56′11″N 90°21′57″W / 40.93650°N 90.36583°W | Bronzeville neighborhood |
Kentucky
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Robert Penn Warren | ![]() |
Robert Penn Warren Birthplace | coord | notes |
Louisiana
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Robert Penn Warren | Robert Penn Warren House | 1941–1942 | 30°18′30″N 90°58′25″W / 30.30823°N 90.9736°W | notes |
Maine
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Stephen King | ![]() |
Stephen King home | xxx | ||
Sarah Orne Jewett | ![]() |
Jewett-Eastman House | 1850-? | 43°14′6″N 70°48′33″W / 43.23500°N 70.80917°W | American writer xxx |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | ![]() |
Stowe House | 1850-1852 | 43°54′46″N 69°57′39″W / 43.91278°N 69.96083°W | Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in this home. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Wadsworth-Longfellow House | 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".[19] |
Maryland
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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H.L. Mencken | ![]() |
H. L. Mencken House | xxx | ||
Rachel Carson | ![]() |
Carson House, Colesville | Carson wrote "Silent Spring" in this house. | ||
Edgar Allan Poe | ![]() |
Poe House, Baltimore | xxx | ||
Gertrude Stein | ![]() |
Gertrude Stein House, Baltimore | xxx | 39°18′13″N 76°36′45″W / 39.30349°N 76.61242°W |
Massachusetts
[edit]Michigan
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Ernest Hemingway | ![]() |
Ernest Hemingway Cottage | 1900–1921 | 45°16′50.21″N 85°0′4.046″W / 45.2806139°N 85.00112389°W | Hemingway family summer home. Hemingway and first wife, Hadley Richardson spent their honeymoon in the cottage.[20] |
Theodore Roethke | ![]() |
Roethke Houses | 1911–1925 | 43°25′00″N 83°59′14″W / 43.41667°N 83.98722°W | Roethke's childhood home. |
Minnesota
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald | ![]() |
F. Scott Fitzgerald House | 1918–1920 | 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.[21] |
Sinclair Lewis | ![]() |
Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home | 1889–1902 | 45°44′14″N 94°57′26.5″W / 45.73722°N 94.957361°W |
Mississippi
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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William Faulkner | ![]() |
Rowan Oak | 34°21′35″N 89°31′29″W / 34.3598°N 89.5247°W | ||
Eudora Welty | ![]() |
Eudora Welty House | 32°19′7.7″N 90°10′13.22″W / 32.318806°N 90.1703389°W |
Missouri
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Laura Ingalls Wilder | Laura Ingalls Wilder House | 34°21′35″N 89°31′29″W / 34.3598°N 89.5247°W | |||
Mark Twain | ![]() |
Mark Twain boyhood home | 32°19′7.7″N 90°10′13.22″W / 32.318806°N 90.1703389°W | ||
Maya Angelou | ![]() |
Maya Angelou birthplace | coord |
Nebraska
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Willa Cather | Willa Cather House | 1883–1890 | 40°5′16″N 98°31′16″W / 40.08778°N 98.52111°W | Willa Cather birthplace. |
New Hamsphire
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Robert Frost | ![]() |
Robert Frost Farm (Derry, New Hampshire) | 1900–1911 | ||
Robert Frost | ![]() |
The Frost Place | 1911- | 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 staying in the house during the summer. |
New Jersey
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Stephen Crane | ![]() |
Stephen Crane house | date | coord | notes |
Walt Whitman | ![]() |
Walt Whitman House | 1884–1892 | 39°56′33″N 75°7′26″W / 39.94250°N 75.12389°W | The only house that Whitman owned. |
William Carlos Williams | ![]() |
William Carlos Williams House | 1913–1963 | 40°49′36″N 74°6′18″W / 40.82667°N 74.10500°W | notes |
New Mexico
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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D.H. Lawrence | D.H. Lawrence Ranch | 1920s | 36°34′55″N 105°35′37″W / 36.58194°N 105.59361°W | notes |
New York
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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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 | 120px | 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 | Place | 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 | |
Toni Morrison | Private home | Toni Morrison Birthplace | 41°27′00″N 82°09′47″W / 41.45001°N 82.16305°W | Now a private residence. |
Pennsylvania
[edit]- Rachel Carson (also Maryland)
- Gertrude Stein birthplace, Alleghany city
Texas
[edit]Katherine Ann Porter, wp
Washington D.C.
[edit]- frederick douglas, Washington DC
- Henry Longfellow house
Vermont
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Robert Frost | ![]() |
Robert Frost Farm (Ripton, Vermont) | 1939–1963 | 43°57′59″N 73°0′17″W / 43.96639°N 73.00472°W | Frost resided here in the summer and fall months. He spent his winters in Florida. |
Robert Frost | image | Robert Frost Stone House Museum) | Bennington College | ||
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 | 1953-1965 | coord |
- Robert Frost Farm
- Shirley Jackson
- Rudyard Kipling
Virginia
[edit]Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Willa Cather | ![]() |
Willa Cather Birthplace | 1873–1874 | 39°16′3″N 78°19′27″W / 39.26750°N 78.32417°W | Willa Cather birthplace. |
Willa Cather | ![]() |
Virginia childhood home | 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 | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
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Pearl S. Buck | Pearl S. Buck Birthplace | 38°8′30″N 80°12′19″W / 38.14167°N 80.20528°W | 1892 | Willa Cather birthplace. |
Wisconsin
[edit]Hemingway house
References
[edit]- ^ "Truman Capote Historical Marker at Monroeville, AL". Rural SW Alabama. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- ^ "Tor House:History". Tor House.org. 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
- ^ 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) - ^ "National Register #00000856 John Steinbeck House". National Register of Historic Places in Monterey. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Gwendolyn Brooks". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ "Where Hemingway's Story Begins". Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak park. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ "Vachel Lindsay". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ "Carl Sandburg". Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ "One House, Three Generations of a Remarkable Family". Maine Historical Society. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ Mendinghall, Joseph S. (1968), National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: The Ernest Hemingway Cottage, File Unit: National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records: Michigan, 1964 - 2013
- ^ "F. Scott Fitzgerald Birthplace". St Paul Historical Society. Retrieved 4 June 2024.