TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trubek, Anne,
TI  - A skeptic's guide to writers' houses
AV  - PS 141 .T761 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - American authors
KW  - United States
KW  - American literature
KW  - sears
KW  - Authors and readers
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Literary landmarks
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -