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Milledgeville, Georgia
Andalusia provided for author Flannery O'Connor not only a place to live and write, but also a functional landscape in which to set her fiction.During her productive years as a writer, noted female writer Flannery O'Connor spent most of her time at Andalusia. There, she routinely wrote every...
Amherst, Massachusetts
Emily Dickinson's troubled life and influential work are chronicled at the Emily Dickinson Museum located in The Homestead, the house in which Dickinson spent both her childhood and the years leading up to her untimely death.Emily Dickinson's troubled life and influential work are chronicled at the...
Savannah, Georgia
Although influential female writer Flannery O'Connor moved away when she was 13, visitors can get a sense of the lasting impression that her childhood home had upon O'Connor's life and works.Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah on March 25, 1925. When the O'Connors lived here, the building was a...
Rome City, Indiana
The Cabin in Wildflower Woods is the former home of Gene Stratton-Porter, one of Indiana’s most widely read authors and one of the world’s first and best nature photographers.What is now the Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site was the Porter’s second home, built in 1913. The...
Hartford, Connecticut
Acclaimed author Harriet Beecher Stowe purchased this painted brick cottage on Forest Street in 1873.This historic site includes the Visitor Center (1873 Carriage House), the Harriet Beecher Stowe House which is open for tours, and the Katharine Seymour Day House. Modest by the standards of the...
Cincinnati, Ohio
Harriet Beecher Stowe spent part of her life in this Cincinnati home before writing her most important work, Uncle Tom's Cabin.This house was the home to Harriet Beecher Stowe prior to her marriage and to her father, Rev. Lyman Beecher, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders,...
Cloutierville, Louisiana
This historic house, which has recently burned down, honored the story of Cloutierville's most famous citizen, influential 19th century author Kate Chopin.The Kate Chopin House was the Cane River home of author Kate Chopin and her husband Oscar. Her experiences here led her to record the history,...
Mansfield, Missouri
Rocky Ridge Farm, where Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her famous "Little House" books, remains an important literary landmark for children and adults alike.The Museum exhibits include artifacts spanning over a century of the lives of the pioneering history described in the "Little House...
De Smet, South Dakota
Visitors experience a unique journey into Laura's life and history with a trip to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society in De Smet, South Dakota, the "Little Town on the Praire."Visitors experience a unique journey into Laura's life and history with a trip to the Laura Ingalls Wilder...
Burr Oak, Iowa
At the site of Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood home, little imagination is needed to see her footprints all around the area.The Laura Ingalls Wilder Park and Museum contains a number of places that informed her life and inspired her books. Visitors can see the places where Laura Ingalls Wilder...
Hawthorne, Florida
The Cracker architectural style home characterizes the former residence of Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.This site was the home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the author of many major literary works, including The Yearling, which received the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for fiction...
Boston, Massachusetts
Landscape gardener, suffragist, and pacifist Ruth Standish Nichols lived in this townhouse from 1885 to 1960.The museum educates visitors by providing a unique glimpse into domestic life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on Boston's historic Beacon Hill. The House is furnished with...
Concord, Massachusetts
The historic home of the extraordinary Alcott Family, Orchard House is where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set Little Women.Orchard House was the Alcott family's most permanent home (from 1858 to 1877). Louisa May Alcott wrote her classic work, Little Women, here in 1868 at a "shelf" desk...
Hillsboro, West Virginia
Born on this farm in 1892, Pearl S. Buck grew up to become the first American woman to receive both the Nobel and the Pullitzer Prize for Literature.This house was built by the Stulting family who emigrated from Holland to America in 1847 and who lived here on a sixteen acre farm. On June 26, 1892...
Perkasie, Pennsylvania
The Pearl S. Buck House, home to the celebrated author and her international family for 38 years, now promotes her legacy.
Discover the legacy of the first American woman to receive the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for literature. Learn about the life of author, activist, and humanitarian Pearl S....
Springdale, Pennsylvania
Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in this small, five room farmhouse in the newly formed borough of Springdale.It is here in southwestern Pennsylvania that this little girl, who grew up to become "one of the most influential people of the 20th century," according to TIME magazine,...
South Berwick, Maine
Writer Sarah Orne Jewett spent much of her life in this stately Georgian residence, owned by her family since 1819.Writer Sarah Orne Jewett spent much of her life in this stately Georgian residence, owned by her family since 1819.
The view from her desk in the second-floor hall surveys the town's...
Lenox, Massachusetts
Wharton designed and built The Mount in 1902, based on the principles outlined in her influential book, The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-authored with architect Ogden Codman, Jr.This classical revival house represents the only full expression we have of Wharton's architectural interests. The...