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Literary Landmarks Delight Will Rogers Fans
Literary landmarks that honor Will Rogers
Concord Museum
Concord Musuem maintains collections of memorabilia from two of the United State's most influential authors Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
Tennessee Williams Birthplace Home and Welcome Center
The birthplace home of Tennessee Williams, now open as a state welcome center, exhibits the playwright's works and other materials.
William Faulkner's Rowan Oak
The home of William Faulkner is open for public tours.
Hampton Plantation State Park
The home of South Carolina's first poet laureate, Archibald Rutledge, is open for public tours.
The Bronte Sisters
Two homes of the Bronte sisters are open for public tours.
The Thomas Wolfe Memorial
The Thomas Wolfe Memorial is open for public tours.
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
The home of "America's Troubador" is open for public tours.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Historic Site
Tour the historic home of the author of The Yearling.
Jane Austen Museum
Jane Austen's home in Chawton, Hampshire, England, was opened to the public as a museum in 1949.
Dickinson Homestead
The home of poet Emily Dickinson is open for public tours.
May Is a Time to Celebrate Literature
Literary festivals and events for May.
Literary . . . Your Hometown
Discovering the literary roots of your hometown.
Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts
Eatonville, Florida, was home of influential author Zora Neal Hurston.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Literary tourists can trace the history of one of their all-time favorite authors
Malabar Farm
Home of author and conservationist Louis Bromfield is open for tours.
The Anne Frank House
Historic home and hidaway is open for public tours.
Literary Resolutions
January is a good month for planning literary tours.
Have a Whale of a Time in January
Celebrate Herman Melville Days on January 11, 2001
A Dickens Christmas--The Dickens House Museum
A tour of Charles Dickens' home is a great Christmas treat for literary tourists.
John Dickinson: The Penman of the Revolution
The home of Colonial statesman John Dickinson is open for public tours.
Noah Webster House
The birthplace of the creator of the American dictionary is regularly open for public tour.
Ghosts of Authors Past
Looking for an actual apparition or simply the spirit of greatness? Then take a literary tour.
The Game is Afoot for Literary Tourists and Sherlock Holmes Fans
The Sherlock Holmes Museum in London and the William Gillette Castle in Connecticut are exciting destinations for literary tourists.
Washington Irving's Sunnyside
A fall tour of Washington Irving's Sunnyside will get literary tourists into the storytelling mood.
Southern Festival of Books
A present-day literary tour
Ireland's First Public Library
After nearly 300 years, Dublin's first public library remains a working library.
Walt Whitman Birthplace
The Walt Whitman Birthplace, an inspirational back-to-school literary tour.
Wordsworth Summer Conference 2000
The 30th annual Wordsworth Conference will be an exciting event for literary tourists.
John Steinbeck, Part 2: Steinbeck Festival Celebrates 20 Years
The Steinbeck Festival and the National Steinbeck Center are two destinations that will delight all literary tourists.
John Steinbeck, Part 1
The Steinbeck House, the birthplace of American author John Steinbeck, is open to the public.
James Joyce
Literary tourists ready to celebrate Bloomsday can go on an armchair tour of two important landmarks in Dublin.
Bloomsday
Throughout the world, James Joyce enthusiasts celebrate Bloomsday.
Literary Festivals
If you like to "do" something on your vacations, try attending literary festivals.
Planning a Literary Vacation
Grass is turning green, birds are singing, and school will be out in a matter of weeks. So, now is the time to pull out the travel maps and guidebooks and make plans for a summer literary vacation.
Bayou Folk Museum
Home of controversial feminist author is open regularly for public tours.
Beauregard-Keyes House
Romantic New Orleans home of author Frances Parkinson Keyes is open for public tours.
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
This popular literary festival celebrates its 14th year.
Sidney Lanier Cottage
The birthplace of Sidney Lanier--located in Macon--Georgia, is open for public tours.
Getting Involved
As individuals, we can play a part in preserving literary sites.
Bok Tower Gardens
A stunning memorial to one of the United States' most successful editors, Edward William Bok.
Tara, A Country Inn
An unexpected place for literary tourists to immerse themselves in Southern narrative.
Margaret Mitchell House
Gone With the Wind author's honeymoon home open for public tour.
New York’s Plaza Hotel
Literary tourists will have fun at New York's Plaza hotel.
By Popular Demand: A Personal Statement
Why literary tours?
The Most Hated Man in Texas
Oakwood Cemetery in Waco, Texas, is the burial site of perhaps the most vicious critic in the history of American literature.
Katherine Anne Porter Museum
The childhood home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Katherine Anne Porter is open regularly for public tours.
O. Henry Museum
William Sydney Porter [O. Henry] began his writing career in this Austin, Texas home.
Christmas at the Wren's Nest
Anytime is a good time to visit the Wren's Nest; however, December is a special month at the home of Joel Chandler Harris, creator of Uncle Remus.
Pearl Buck--Part 2
A look at Green Hills Farm, Buck's Pennsylvania home.
Pearl Buck--Part 1
A look at Stulting House, the birthplace of Pearl Sydenstricker Buck.
Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home
The birthplace home of one of Georgia's most celebrated authors is open on weekends for public tours.
Before you go on a literary tour . . .
Seven tips for making a literary tour more enriching.
Edgar Allan Poe--Family Homes and Catacombs
Celebrate October with tours to Edgar Allan Poe literary sites.
Five Houses Relating to Shakespeare
Tourists can go back in time, draw inspiration from beautiful English gardens, and learn more about sixteenth century England when they visit five homes related to the poet and playwright William Shakespeare.
Walker Percy
Walker Percy fans can find many sites of interest.
Two Homes of Samuel Johnson
Two literary landmarks honor the author of the Dictionary of the English Language.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
There are four interesting landmarks dedicated to the memory of one of the 19th century’s most prolific women writers, Harriet Beecher Stowe. From Maine to Florida, she was active in communities where she lived; however, through her writing, Stowe touched the lives of more than her neighbors.
Samuel Ullman, author of "Youth"
Samuel Ullman was an influential businessman and city leader. However, as author of "Youth," he affected more lives than he could ever have imagined.
The Homes of Booker T. Washington
Two national historic sites honor one of the nation's most highly respected educators of the nineteenth century.
Maria Howard Weeden, author of Shadows on the Wall
Maria Howard Weeden was an accomplished artist and writer. Her books are filled with portraits and verse about the people she knew.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
The works of this uncoventional female writer captured the attention of critics and caused them to rank her among such noted writers of the time as Henry James, George Washington Cabel, and William Dean Howells.
The World of Beatrix Potter
Four wonderful sites to take you back to your childhood and the days of Peter Rabbit, Mr. McGregor, and Jemima Puddle-duck.
Robert Penn Warren Birthplace
America's first poet laureate was born in a red brick "railroad bungalow" in Guthrie, Kentucky. This home is open for public tours.
Ivy Green
Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. At her birthplace home, Ivy Green, she learned her first word and the formed a background to become a writer and speaker that would influence the lives of people around the world.
Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum
The only museum in the world dedicated to the memory of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald is in Montgomery, Alabama. Here he worked on Tender is the Night and she began her only novel, Save Me the Waltz.
The Keats-Shelley House
English poet John Keats spent the last few months of his life in Rome, Italy. The house where he stayed is now open as a museum for public tours.
William Cowper: Nature Poet and Hymn-writer
Orchard Side, William Cowper's home in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England, provides a scenic retreat for literary tourists.
The Romantic Homes of William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was an influential English poet who was instrumental in launching the Romantic Period of literature. Three of the homes where he lived are now regularly open for public tours.
The Nation Celebrates the Birth of "Papa"
Exciting events are scheduled for the 100th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's birth.
Weems-Botts Museum, Dumfries, Virginia
The oldest structure in Dumfries, Virginia was once the bookstore and lodging for traveling salesman, Mason Locke Weems.
Monroeville, Literary Capital of Alabama
A visit the southern town where the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird was born.
Learning Through Literary Tours
Tours of historic sites can enrich the study of literature.