A skeptic's guide to writers' houses / Anne Trubek.
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TextPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.Description: 165 pages : illustrations 24 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - PS 141 .T761 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-165).
The irrational allure of writers' houses -- Trying to find Whitman in Camden -- Never the Twain shall meet -- The Concord pilgrimage -- Hemingway's breadcrumb trail -- Not that Tom Wolfe -- Best-laid plans at Jack London State Historic Park -- The compensation of Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Poe houses and arrested decay -- At home with Charles Chesnutt and Langston Hughes -- American writers' houses open to the public.
The author visits American authors' homes, whether the house is from their birth, death, or sometime in between, and gives background information while on the stomping grounds of Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Clemens, and the like.
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