Women & Children First
Founded more than thirty years ago in Chicago, Women & Children First is only 3,500 square feet in area, most of which is one large open room. The store carries more than twenty thousand books, as...
View ArticleBoswell Book Company
Boswell Book Company opened in April 2009 in the Downer Avenue location of Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, a beloved Milwaukee bookstore that had closed a month earlier after seventy-two years in business....
View ArticleThe Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum
Home to Ernest Hemingway for more than ten years, this house in Key West, FL is now open to the public as a Hemingway museum and bookstore. Guided tours and wedding packages available. Website:...
View ArticleLongfellow House
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site preserves the home of Henry W. Longfellow, one of the world’s foremost 19th century poets. The house also served as headquarters for...
View ArticleJames Merrill House
James Merrill came to Stonington in 1954 and took up residence at 107 Water Street with his companion, David Jackson. Merrill spent summers in Stonington until his death in 1995. James Merrill's...
View ArticleKerouac House
Jack Kerouac lived in this home at the time On the Road made him a national sensation. Kerouac also wrote his follow-up, The Dharma Bums, at this location during eleven frenetic days and nights. Today,...
View ArticleLouisa May Alcott's Orchard House
Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House (circa 1690) is most noted for being home to the talented Alcott family. The house is also where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set her novel, Little Women, in 1868....
View ArticleMark Twain House
The Mark Twain House & Museum, a National Historic Landmark in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. It is also where Twain...
View ArticleMark Twain House
The Mark Twain House & Museum, a National Historic Landmark in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. It is also where Twain...
View ArticleWalden Pond and Thoreau Cabin
Henry David Thoreau lived at Walden Pond from July 1845 to September 1847. Today, Walden Pond has been designated a National Historic Landmark and is considered the birthplace of the conservation...
View ArticleWalden Pond and Thoreau Cabin
Henry David Thoreau lived at Walden Pond from July 1845 to September 1847. Today, Walden Pond has been designated a National Historic Landmark and is considered the birthplace of the conservation...
View ArticleThe Mount
The Mount is both an historic site and a center for culture inspired by the passions of Edith Wharton. Designed and built by Edith Wharton in 1902, the house embodies the principles outlined in her...
View ArticleThe Mount
Built and designed by Edith Wharton in 1902, The Mount is both a historic site and a center for culture inspired by the passions of the American novelist. The property includes three acres of formal...
View ArticleThomas Wolfe Memorial
Known as "Dixieland" in Look Homeward, Angel, the historic Old Kentucky Home boarding house in Asheville was home to Thomas Wolfe for ten years. Though the house suffered extensive damage in a fire in...
View ArticleThomas Wolfe Memorial
Known as "Dixieland" in Look Homeward, Angel, the historic Old Kentucky Home boarding house in Asheville was home to Thomas Wolfe for ten years. Though the house suffered extensive damage in a fire in...
View ArticleShenandoah Introduces Bigger Short Short Prize
Shenandoah, the literary journal published by Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, has doubled the prize purse for its second annual short short story contest—which still has no entry...
View ArticleShenandoah Introduces Bigger Short Short Prize
Shenandoah, the literary journal published by Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, has doubled the prize purse for its second annual short short story contest—which still has no entry...
View ArticleWalt Whitman Birthplace
The Walt Whitman Birthplace was built in 1819 by Walter Whitman, father to the poet Walt Whitman. Today the Birthplace house and Interpretive Center offer guided tours, a museum shop and bookstore,...
View ArticleWalt Whitman Birthplace
The Walt Whitman Birthplace was built in 1819 by Walter Whitman, father to the poet Walt Whitman. Today the Birthplace house and Interpretive Center offer guided tours, a museum shop and bookstore,...
View ArticleHerman Melville's Arrowhead
Built in 1783, the Arrowhead was the home of Herman Melville for thirteen years. The works Melville wrote at Arrowhead included Moby-Dick, Pierre, The Confidence-Man, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales,...
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