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List of residences of American writers

Alabama

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Writer Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Truman Capote Historical marker 1927–1933 Monroeville
31°31′26″N 87°19′26″W / 31.52395°N 87.32389°W / 31.52395; -87.32389 		Capote 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 / 32.35883; -86.29227 		Fitzgerald worked on the novel, Tender Is The Night, in this house.[2]

California

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Writer Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Robinson Jeffers Tor house 1919–1962 Carmel
36°32′31.5″N 121°55′56″W / 36.542083°N 121.93222°W / 36.542083; -121.93222 		Jeffers's entire work was written here.[3]
Jack London Wolf house and ranch 1905–1913 Glen Elen
38°21′2″N 122°32′35″W / 38.35056°N 122.54306°W / 38.35056; -122.54306 		The house 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 / 37.82444; -122.02972 		O'Neill wrote several plays here, 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 / 34.16222; -118.00000 		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 / 36.67667; -121.65806 		Steinbeck's birthplace and childhood home. He completed The Red Pony and Tortilla Flat here in the 1930s.[7]

Connecticut

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Writer Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
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 / 41.33194; -72.096250 		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 / 41.767083; -72.701389 		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 / 41.7669833; -72.7007806 		Stowe spent the last 23 years of her life in this house.[10]
Noah Webster Webster house Built 1758 Hartford
41°44′46.27″N 72°44′47.4″W / 41.7461861°N 72.746500°W / 41.7461861; -72.746500 		Webster's birthplace.[11]

Florida

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Writer Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Ernest Hemingway Key West house 1931–1939 Key West
24°33′05″N 81°48′02″W / 24.55143°N 81.80061°W / 24.55143; -81.80061 		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 / 27.46083; -80.34194 		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 / 28.56444; -81.39167 		Kerouac wrote Dharma Bums in this small cottage.[14]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Cross Creek house 1929–1953 29°28′53″N 82°9′37″W / 29.48139°N 82.16028°W / 29.48139; -82.16028 The Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Yearling, was penned in this cracker-style house.[15]

Georgia

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Joel Chandler Harris Wren's Nest 1881–1908 Atlanta
33°44′16″N 84°25′20″W / 33.73764°N 84.42219°W / 33.73764; -84.42219 		Harris wrote many books including the legendary Uncle Remus tales in this house.
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 / 33.7813944; -84.3846167 		Mitchell wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning -novel Gone with the Wind here.[16]
Flannery O'Connor O'Connor Childhood Home 1925–1938 Savannah
32°04′21″N 81°05′29″W / 32.07251°N 81.09146°W / 32.07251; -81.09146 		Birthplace of O'Connor, the museum is open to the public.[17]
Flannery O'Connor Andalusia farm 1951–1964 Milledgeville
33°07′31″N 83°16′04″W / 33.12526°N 83.26775°W / 33.12526; -83.26775 		This area of Georgia was the setting for many of O'Connor's short stories.[18]

Illinois

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Gwendolyn Brooks Brooks House--Chicago 1953–1994 Chicago
41°45′35″N 87°36′25″W / 41.75959°N 87.60698°W / 41.75959; -87.60698 		20th century poet and teacher. First Black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950).[19] 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 / 41.892778; -87.795081 		American novelist and journalist. Awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.[20]
Vachel Lindsay Vachel Lindsay House 1879–1931 Springfield
39°47′46″N 89°38′59″W / 39.79616°N 89.64964°W / 39.79616; -89.64964 		American poet known for his performance poetry.[21]
Carl Sandburg Birthplace of Carl Sandburg 1878–1896 Galesburg
40°56′11″N 90°21′57″W / 40.93650°N 90.36583°W / 40.93650; -90.36583 		Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer.[22]

Louisiana

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Name Image Place Years Coordinates Notes
Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren House 1941–1942 Prairieville
30°18′30″N 90°58′25″W / 30.30823°N 90.9736°W / 30.30823; -90.9736 		The private residence, known as Twin Oaks, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Maine

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Stephen King Stephen and Tabitha King home 1980–present Bangor
44°48′09″N 68°47′06″W / 44.80251°N 68.78501°W / 44.80251; -68.78501 		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 / 43.23500; -70.80917 Jewett's childhood home. She is best known for "The Country of the Pointed Firs" (1896) and “A White Heron,” (1886).[23]
Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe House 1850-1852 Brunswick
43°54′46″N 69°57′39″W / 43.91278°N 69.96083°W / 43.91278; -69.96083 		Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in this home.[24]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Wadsworth-Longfellow House 1807–1842 Portland
43°39′25″N 70°15′37″W / 43.65693°N 70.26020°W / 43.65693; -70.26020 		Childhood home of legendery poet, whose work includes "Paul Revere's Ride" and the "The Song of Hiawatha".[25]

Maryland

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
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 / 39.30349; -76.61242

Massachusetts

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Name Image Residence Years Location Notes
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 / 42.378778; -71.110694
Edward Gorey The Elephant House 1986–2000 Cape Cod The house is a museum displaying Gorey's life and work.
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Museum xxx Amherst notes
Louisa May Alcott Hillside 1844–1848 Concord Nathaniel Hawthorne bought the house when the Alcotts moved to Boston in 1848.
Louisa May Alcott Orchard House 1858–1877 Concord This home is adjacent to Nathaniel Hawthorne's home, The Wayside. Alctott wrote "Little Women" in this home.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson House dates Concord note
Herman Melville Arrowhead (Herman Melville House) dates Pittsfield note
Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace 1804–1808 Salem Hawthorne and his mother moved from the house after his father died in 1808.
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Wayside 1852–1864 Concord Hawthorne lived here until his death in 1864.
Henry David Thoreau Thoreau–Alcott House Concord note
Edith Wharton The Mount 1902-1911 Lenox note

Michigan

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Cottage 1900–1921 45°16′50.21″N 85°0′4.046″W / 45.2806139°N 85.00112389°W / 45.2806139; -85.00112389 Hemingway family summer home. Hemingway and first wife, Hadley Richardson spent their honeymoon in the cottage.[26]
Theodore Roethke Roethke Houses 1911–1925 43°25′00″N 83°59′14″W / 43.41667°N 83.98722°W / 43.41667; -83.98722 Roethke's childhood home.

Minnesota

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
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 / 44.941528; -93.125139 Fitzgerald re-wrote the draft of his first novel, This Side of Paradise in this house.[27]
Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home 1889–1902 45°44′14″N 94°57′26.5″W / 45.73722°N 94.957361°W / 45.73722; -94.957361

Mississippi

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
William Faulkner Rowan Oak 34°21′35″N 89°31′29″W / 34.3598°N 89.5247°W / 34.3598; -89.5247
Eudora Welty Eudora Welty House 32°19′7.7″N 90°10′13.22″W / 32.318806°N 90.1703389°W / 32.318806; -90.1703389

Missouri

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder House 34°21′35″N 89°31′29″W / 34.3598°N 89.5247°W / 34.3598; -89.5247
Mark Twain Mark Twain boyhood home 32°19′7.7″N 90°10′13.22″W / 32.318806°N 90.1703389°W / 32.318806; -90.1703389
Maya Angelou Maya Angelou birthplace coord

Nebraska

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Name Image Place Years Coordinates Notes
Willa Cather Willa Cather House 1883–1890 40°5′16″N 98°31′16″W / 40.08778°N 98.52111°W / 40.08778; -98.52111 Willa Cather birthplace.

New Hamsphire

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Robert Frost Robert Frost Farm (Derry, New Hampshire) 1900–1911
Robert Frost The Frost Place 1911-1920 44°12′46″N 71°45′27″W / 44.21278°N 71.75750°W / 44.21278; -71.75750 The family lived in the house until 1920 and then spent the next 20 years staying in the house during the summer.

New Jersey

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Name Image Place Years Coordinates Notes
Stephen Crane Stephen Crane house 1883–1892 40°13′27″N 74°00′24″W / 40.22404°N 74.00679°W / 40.22404; -74.00679 Crane began his writing career in this Asbury Park house.[28]
Walt Whitman Walt Whitman House 1884–1892 39°56′33″N 75°7′26″W / 39.94250°N 75.12389°W / 39.94250; -75.12389 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 / 40.82667; -74.10500 Williams lived this house for 50 years.

New Mexico

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
D.H. Lawrence D.H. Lawrence Ranch 1920s 36°34′55″N 105°35′37″W / 36.58194°N 105.59361°W / 36.58194; -105.59361 notes

New York

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
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Truman Capote 120px dates coord
F. Scott Fitzgerald dates coord
Washington Irving 120px dates coord
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James Weldon Johnson 120px dates coord
Carson McCullers Carson McCullers House dates coord
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Walt Whitman Walt Whitman Birthplace dates coord

Herman Melville House (Troy, New York)

North Carolina

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Name Image Place Years Coordinates Notes
Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg Home 1945–1967 35°16′17″N 82°26′50″W / 35.27145°N 82.44723°W / 35.27145; -82.44723 notes
Thomas Wolfe Thomas Wolfe House 1906–1916 35°35′51″N 82°33′03″W / 35.59750°N 82.55083°W / 35.59750; -82.55083 Wolfe lived in his boyhood home until he left for college.

Ohio

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
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 / 39.757667; -84.218944 notes

Oregon

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Zane Grey Zane Grey Cabin 1926–1935 42°42′06″N 123°48′17″W / 42.70179°N 123.80477°W / 42.70179; -123.80477 Grey's writing cabin on the Rogue River.
Ken Kesey no image Pleasant Hill Farm 1965–2001? Pleasant hill near Eugene Oregon notes

Pennsylvania

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Rachel Carson Rachel Carson Homestead 1907–1929 40°32′47.15″N 79°47′0.07″W / 40.5464306°N 79.7833528°W / 40.5464306; -79.7833528 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 / 40.36000; -75.21972 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 / 40.30222; -75.96500 Updike's birthplace.

Texas

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Katherine Ann Porter Katherine Anne Porter House 1892–1901 29°59′21″N 97°52′46″W / 29.98917°N 97.87944°W / 29.98917; -97.87944 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 / 30.265694; -97.739111 notes

Washington D.C.

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  • frederick douglas, Washington DC
  • Henry Longfellow house

Vermont

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
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 / 43.96639; -73.00472 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 / 42.93621; -73.20953
Rudyard Kipling Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House) 42°53′55″N 72°33′51″W / 42.89861°N 72.56417°W / 42.89861; -72.56417
Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson house Prospect st North Bennington coord
Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson house 1953-1965 Main Street North Bennington coord

Virginia

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Willa Cather (1) Willa Cather Birthplace 1873–1874 39°16′3″N 78°19′27″W / 39.26750°N 78.32417°W / 39.26750; -78.32417 Willa Cather birthplace.
Willa Cather (2) Virginia childhood home 1874–1883 39°16′06.7″N 78°18′28.7″W / 39.268528°N 78.307972°W / 39.268528; -78.307972 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 / 37.54278; -77.44500 Pulitzer prize winning novelist.

West Virginia

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Name Image Residence Years Coordinates Notes
Pearl S. Buck (1) Pearl S. Buck Birthplace 38°8′30″N 80°12′19″W / 38.14167°N 80.20528°W / 38.14167; -80.20528 1892 Buck's birthplace. When she was four months old, her family moved to China.

References

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  1. ^ "Truman Capote Historical Marker at Monroeville, AL". Rural SW Alabama. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  2. ^ "History". The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Tor House:History". Tor House.org. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  4. ^ "The Wolf House Ruins". Jack London State Historical Park. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  5. ^ McKinney, John. California's National Parks: A Day Hiker's Guide. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 2005: 136–137. ISBN 0-89997-387-6
  6. ^ "Upton Sinclair House". Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  7. ^ "National Register #00000856 John Steinbeck House". National Register of Historic Places in Monterey. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  8. ^ "Eugene O'Neill: New London's Monte Cristo Cottage". Connecticut Explored. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Mark Twain Chronology". PBS website. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  10. ^ Wolfe Boynton, Cynthia. Remarkable Women of Hartford. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2014: 33. ISBN 978-1-62619-320-8
  11. ^ "Noah Webster Birthplace". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  12. ^ Richardson, Laura. "Hemingway's six-toed cats". Key West Florida Weekly. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  13. ^ Dr. Page Putnam Miller (June 19, 1991). "National Historic Landmark Nomination: Hurston, Zora Neale House".
  14. ^ "Jack Kerouac house". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  15. ^ "Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park". Florida State Parks. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  16. ^ "Crescent Apartments--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
  17. ^ "Flannery O'Connor". Georgia Historical Society. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  18. ^ "Andalusia Farm". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  19. ^ "Gwendolyn Brooks". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  20. ^ "Where Hemingway's Story Begins". Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak park. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  21. ^ "Vachel Lindsay". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  22. ^ "Carl Sandburg". Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  23. ^ "The Writer". Historic New England. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  24. ^ "Harriet Beecher Stowe House". Bowdoin College. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  25. ^ "One House, Three Generations of a Remarkable Family". Maine Historical Society. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  26. ^ 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
  27. ^ "F. Scott Fitzgerald Birthplace". St Paul Historical Society. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  28. ^ "The Stephen Crane House". Asbury Park Historical Society. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
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