50 Places
Every Literary Fan Should Visit
For any excuse to travel - if you’re in an area that is home to a place that has some literary historical significance, you have to go and visit it. Well, Favorwire compiled this list of literary places all over the world that you should visit if you happen to be in the neighbourhood.
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| Mark Twain's house with Tiffany-designed walls & ceilings and a Twain made from Lego! |
- Mark Twain House & Museum, Hartford, CT
- Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace & Museum, Oak Park, IL
- Herman Melville’s grave, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY
- Willa Cather’s childhood home, Red Cloud, Nebraska
- Oscar Wilde’s childhood home, Dublin, Ireland
- Baruch Spinoza’s house, The Hague, Netherlands
- Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA
- Yasnaya Polyana (Leo Tolstoy’s home), Russia
- The Mount (Edith Wharton’s home), Lenox, MA
- William
Faulkner’s ‘Rowan Oak’, Oxford, MS
Love the look of 'Rowan Oak' - Scribner Building and Charles Scribner’s Sons Building, New York, NY
- Tennessee Williams lived in the windmill at the Stony Brook campus, Southampton, NY
- O. Henry house and museum, Austin, TX
- Friedrich Nietzsche-Haus, Sils-Maria, Switzerland
- Jorge Luis Borges’s Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Margaret Mitchell House & Museum, Atlanta, GA
- Bronte Parsonage Museum, West Yorkshire, England
- Flannery O’Connor’s childhood home, Savannah, GA
- Charles Dickens Museum, London, England
- Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Truman Capote’s apartment, Brooklyn, NY
- Nikolai’s ‘Gogol House’, Moscow, Russia
- Dorothy Parker’s birthplace, Long Branch, NJ
- H.P. Lovecraft’s Providence, Rhode Island
- Honoré de Balzac’s residence Maison de Balzac, Paris, France
- Karl Marx House, Trier, Germany
- Mark Twain’s boyhood home and museum, Hannibal, MO
- Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk created the Museum of Innocence, Istanbul, Turkey
- Henry Thoreau’s Walden Pond, Concord, MA
- City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA
- Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Richmond, VA
- Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Monk’s House for Bloomsbury Group in East Sussex, England
- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birthplace, St. Paul, MN
- Père Lachaise
Cemetery, Paris, France (final resting place of Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac,
and many great authors)
Joyce, still on the streets of Dublin - Walking around James Joyce’s Dublin, Ireland
- Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX
- Franz Kafka’s grave, The New Jewish Cemetery, Prague
- Les Deux Magots, Paris, France (Parisian café where Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, and many others hung out)
- Edward Gorey
House, Yarmouth Port, MA
The surely inspirational Williams windmill - John Updike’s home, Shillington, PA
- Vladimir’s Nabokov House, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- L.M. Montgomery’s Green Gables, Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Chekhov Library, Taganrog, Russia
- Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur, CA
- Edgar Allan Poe’s grave, Baltimore, MD
- Jane Austen’s House & Museum, Hampshire, England
- Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
- Arthur Rimbaud’s House, Harar, Ethiopia
- Washington Irving’s grave, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
- The Algonquin Hotel, New York, NY meeting place of a group of New York writers, critics, actors and wits including Dorothy Parker, Harpo Marx and Harold Ross.
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| 'Nutcote' on the shores of Sydney Harbour |
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| The white marble forest of Waverley Cemetery, Sydney |
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| The Shaw Neilson's cottage |
Then there's Chauncyvale in Tasmania, the whole town of Gulgong (Henry Lawson's hometown), the Durack's Lake Argyle homestead in W.A. Kylie Tennant's Hut above Kylie's Beach at Diamond Head, N.S.W. Dingley Dell Cottage & Museum to Adam Linsday Gordon. The Colin Thiele sculpture (with Mr Percival) at Eudunda, S.A., the Norman Lindsay Gallery & Museum in Faulconbridge in the Blue Mountains. That's ten, I could go on & on
So who else would you add?
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