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List of residences of American writers

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Listed below are notable or preserved private residences in the United States of significant American writers. These writers' homes, where many Pulitzer Prize-winning books were written, also inspired the settings of many notable poems, short stories and novels.

Alabama

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum1931–1932Montgomery
{{coord|32.35883|N|86.29227|W|display=inline}}		Fitzgerald worked on the novel Tender Is The Night in this house. This is the last home the Fitzeralds lived together as a family.{{cite web |title=History of the home|url=https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/about-the-fitz |website=The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum |access-date=5 October 2024}}
Truman Capote

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The Faulk home site1927–1933Monroeville
{{coord|31.52395|N|87.32389|W|display=inline}}		Capote lived with his mother's relatives in the Faulk home from 1927 to 1933 and spent several summers here after 1933.{{cite web |title=Truman Capote Historical Marker at Monroeville, AL |url=https://www.ruralswalabama.org/attraction/truman-capote-historical-marker-monroeville-al/ |website=Rural SW Alabama |access-date=25 July 2023}}

California

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Robinson Jeffers

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Tor house1919–1962Carmel
{{Coord|36|32|31.5|N|121|55|56|W|display=inline}}		Jeffers wrote all his major works of poetry in this house.{{cite web |title= Tor House:History |url=https://www.torhouse.org/history |website=Tor House.org |access-date=25 July 2023}}
Jack London

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Wolf house and ranch1905–1913Glen Ellen
{{coord|38|21|2|N|122|32|35|W|display=inline}}		London's most famous novel is The Call of the Wild. The 26-room mansion, which London had built, was destroyed in a fire in 1913 shortly before London and his wife to the house.{{cite web |title=The Wolf House Ruins |url=https://jacklondonpark.com/wolf-house/ |website=Jack London State Historical Park |access-date=5 October 2024}}
Eugene O'Neill

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O'Neill home1937–1944Danville
{{coord|37|49|28|N|122|1|47|W|display=inline}}		O'Neill wrote several plays in this house, including The Iceman Cometh and A Moon for the Misbegotten.McKinney, John. California's National Parks: A Day Hiker's Guide. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 2005: 136–137. {{ISBN|0-89997-387-6}}
Upton Sinclair

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Sinclair house1942–1966Monrovia
{{coord|34|9|44|N|118|0|0|W|display=inline}}		Sinclair, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943, wrote many of his later novels in this house.{{cite web |title=Upton Sinclair House |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=145405 |website=Historical Marker Database |access-date=10 September 2024}}
John Steinbeck

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Steinbeck house1902–1919Salinas
{{coord|36|40|36|N|121|39|29|W|display=inline}}		Steinbeck's birthplace and childhood home. He completed The Red Pony and Tortilla Flat here in the 1930s.{{cite web |title=National Register #00000856 John Steinbeck House |url=https://noehill.com/monterey/nat2000000856.asp |website=National Register of Historic Places in Monterey |access-date=25 July 2023}}

Connecticut

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Eugene O'Neill

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Monte Cristo Cottage1900–1920New London
{{coord|41|19|55|N|72|5|46.5|W|display=inline}}		O'Neill's summer childhood home and setting of two of his plays.{{cite web |title=Eugene O'Neill: New London's Monte Cristo Cottage |url=https://www.ctexplored.org/eugene-oneill-new-londons-monte-cristo-cottage/ |website=Connecticut Explored |date=13 July 2021 |access-date=25 July 2023}}
Mark Twain

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Twain House1874–1891Hartford
{{coord|41|46|1.5|N|72|42|5.0|W|display=inline}}		Twain wrote many of his most popular novels in this house.{{cite web|url= https://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/chronology.html|title=Mark Twain Chronology |access-date=2023-07-25|work=PBS website}}
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Stowe House1873–1896Hartford
{{coord|41|46|1.14|N|72|42|2.81|W|display=inline}}		Stowe spent the last 23 years of her life in this house. Stowe is best remembered for her influential and best selling antil-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).Wolfe Boynton, Cynthia. Remarkable Women of Hartford. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2014: 33. {{ISBN|978-1-62619-320-8}}
Noah Webster

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Webster house1758–1774West Hartford
{{coord|41|44|46.27|N|72|44|47.4|W|display=inline}}		Webster's birthplace. He lived in the house until he left for college.{{cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=673&ResourceType=Building|title=Noah Webster Birthplace|accessdate=2023-07-25|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service}}

Florida

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Ernest Hemingway

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Key West house1931–1939Key West
{{coord|24.55143|N|81.80061|W|display=inline}}		Hemingway wrote several of his best-selling novels in this house, including To Have and Have Not. The site is also known for its dozens of six-toed cats, known locally as Hemingway cats.{{cite web |last1=Richardson |first1=Laura |title=Hemingway's six-toed cats |url=https://keywest.floridaweekly.com/articles/hemingways-six-toed-cats/ |website=Key West Florida Weekly |date=16 July 2020 |access-date=26 July 2023}}
Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston House1957–1960Fort Pierce
{{coord|27|27|39|N|80|20|31|W|display=inline}}		The only surviving home of Hurston, legendary writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Her published work includes Their Eyes Were Watching God and Moses, Man of the Mountain.{{cite web|url={{NHLS url|id=91002047}} |title=National Historic Landmark Nomination: Hurston, Zora Neale House |author=Dr. Page Putnam Miller |date=June 19, 1991}}
Jack Kerouac120pxJack Kerouac House1957–1958Orlando
{{coord|28|33|52|N|81|23|30|W|display=inline}}		American novelist and poet of the Beat Generation, Kerouac wrote The Dharma Bums in this small cottage.{{cite web |title=Jack Kerouac house |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/jack-kerouac-house |website=Atlas Obscura |access-date=26 July 2023}}
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Cross Creek house1929–1953Cross Creek
{{coord|29|28|53|N|82|9|37|W|display=inline}}		The Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Yearling, was written by Rawlings in her Florida cracker-style house.{{cite web |title=Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park |url=https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/marjorie-kinnan-rawlings-historic-state-park |website=Florida State Parks |access-date=10 September 2024}}

Georgia

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| Joel Chandler Harris120pxWren's Nest1881–1908Atlanta
{{coord|33.73764|N|84.42219|W|region:US-GA_type:landmark|display=inline}}		Harris is the author of the legendary Uncle Remus tales.{{cite web |title=About Joel Chandler Harris |url=https://www.wrensnest.org/joel-chandler-harris |website=The Wren's Nest |access-date=11 January 2025}}
| Carson McCullers (1)image neededCarson McCullers Childhood Home1917–1934Atlanta
{{coord|33.73764|N|84.42219|W|region:US-GA_type:landmark|display=inline}}		Born Lula Carson Smith, McCullers gained literary acclaim at the young age of 23 with her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. The writer's childhood home is now owned by Columbus State University.{{Cite web|url=http://mccullerscenter.org/|title=Carson McCullers|website=mccullerscenter.org|access-date=22 January 2025}}
| Margaret Mitchell120pxMargaret Mitchell House and Museum1925–1932Atlanta
{{coord|33|46|53.02|N|84|23|4.62|W|display=inline}}		Mitchell wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning-novel Gone with the Wind here.{{Cite web|title=Crescent Apartments--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary|url=https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/atlanta/cre.htm|access-date=2023-07-31|website=www.nps.gov}}
| Flannery O'Connor (1)120pxO'Connor Childhood Home1925–1938Savannah
{{coord|32.07251|N|81.09146|W|display=inline}}		Birthplace of O'Connor; the museum is open to the public.{{cite web |title=Flannery O'Connor |url=https://georgiahistory.com/education-outreach/online-exhibits/featured-historical-figures/flannery-oconnor/brief-biography/#:~:text=Mary%20Flannery%20O'Connor%20was,and%20made%20her%20first%20communion. |website=Georgia Historical Society |access-date=27 July 2023}}
| Flannery O'Connor (2)120pxAndalusia farm1951–1964Milledgeville
{{coord|33.12526|N|83.26775|W		display=inline}}This area of Georgia was the setting for many of O'Connor's short stories.{{cite web |title=Andalusia Farm |url=https://www.nps.gov/places/andalusia-farm.htm |website=U.S. National Park Service |access-date=27 July 2023}}

Illinois

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| Ernest Hemingway120pxBirthplace of Ernest Hemingway1899–1905Oak Park
{{coord|41.892778|N|87.795081|W|display=inline}}		Birthplace and childhood home of legendary American novelist and journalist who was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. The house is also a museum open to the public.{{cite web |title=Where Hemingway's Story Begins |url=https://www.hemingwaybirthplace.com/ |website=Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak park |access-date=29 May 2024}}
| Vachel Lindsay120pxVachel Lindsay House1879–1931Springfield
{{coord|39.79616|N|89.64964|W|display=inline}}		American poet known for his performance poetry.{{cite web |title=Vachel Lindsay |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vachel-lindsay |website=Poetry Foundation |access-date=29 May 2024}}
| Carl Sandburg120pxCarl Sandburg State Historic Site1878–1896Galesburg
{{coord|40.93650|N|90.36583|W|display=inline}}		Birthplace of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer.{{cite web |title=Carl Sandburg |url=https://dnrhistoric.illinois.gov/experience/sites/central/carl-sandburg.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909063048/https://dnrhistoric.illinois.gov/experience/sites/central/carl-sandburg.html |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |access-date=29 May 2024 |website=Illinois Historic Preservation Division}}

Louisiana

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| Robert Penn Warren120pxRobert Penn Warren House1941–1942Prairieville
{{coord|30.30823
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Maine

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| Stephen King120pxStephen and Tabitha King home1980–presentBangor
{{coord|44.80251|N|68.78501|W|display=inline}}		Home of best-selling author of horror novels including Carrie and The Shining, this Victorian mansion lies in Bangor's Whitney Park Historic District.{{cite web |title=Stephen King's House |url=https://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/new-england/bangor/attractions/stephen-king-s-house/a/poi-sig/1372153/361995 |website=Lonely Planet |access-date=22 January 2025}}
| Sarah Orne Jewett120pxJewett-Eastman House1850-?South Berwick{{coord|43|14|6|N|70|48|33|W|display=inline}}Jewett's childhood home. She is best known for "The Country of the Pointed Firs" (1896) and “A White Heron,” (1886).{{cite web |title=The Writer |url=https://jewett.house/topic/the-writer/#:~:text=The%20Writer,fiction%2C%20essays%2C%20and%20poetry. |website=Historic New England |access-date=5 October 2024}}
| Harriet Beecher Stowe120pxStowe House1850–1852Brunswick
{{coord|43|54|46|N|69|57|39|W|display=inline}}		Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) in this house.{{cite web |title=Harriet Beecher Stowe House |url=https://www.bowdoin.edu/events/stowe-house/ |website=Bowdoin College |access-date=10 September 2024}}
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow120pxWadsworth-Longfellow House1807–1842Portland
{{coord|43.65693
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Maryland

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| H.L. Mencken120pxH. L. Mencken House1883–1956Baltimore
{{coord|39|17|15.2|N|76|38|30.6|W|display=inline}}		The house was opened to the public in 2019.
| Rachel Carson120pxCarson House, Colesville1956–1964Colesville
{{coord|39|2|48|N|77|0|2|W|display=inline}}		Carson wrote her legendary work, "Silent Spring", in this house in 1962.{{cite web |title=Rachel Carson House |url=https://www.nps.gov/places/rachel-carson-house.htm |website=National Park Service |access-date=10 January 2025}}
| Edgar Allan Poe120pxPoe House, Baltimore1833–1835Baltimore
{{coord|39.29150
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| Gertrude Stein120pxDavid Bachrach House1892Baltimore
{{coord|39|18|50.6|N|76|38|9.5|W|display=inline}}		The Bachrach house, also known as the Gertrude Stein house, is not open to the public. Stein was a niece of Mrs. David Bachrach.

Massachusetts

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| E. E. Cummings120pxE. E. Cummings House1894–1917Cambridge
{{coord|42|22|43.6|N|71|6|38.5|W|display=inline}}		The childhood home of the author and poet, Cummings lived here until he graduated from Harvard University in 1917.{{cite web |title=Storied Irving Street Paves way to History |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/05/storied-irving-street-paves-way-to-history/ |website=The Harvard Gazette |date=19 May 2016 |access-date=10 January 2025}}
| Edward Gorey120pxThe Elephant House1986–2000Cape Cod
{{coord|41|42|19|N|70|14|33|W|display=inline}}		The house is a museum displaying Gorey's life and work.{{cite web |title=TRAVEL ADVISORY; Edward Gorey's House Opens to the Public |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/travel/travel-advisory-edward-gorey-s-house-opens-to-the-public.html |website=New York Times |date=15 December 2002 |access-date=9 January 2025 |last1=Cormier |first1=Ray }}
| Emily Dickinson120pxEmily Dickinson Museum1855–1886Amherst
{{coord|42|22|34|N|72|30|52|W|display=inline}}		After Dickinson's death, 1800 poems were discovered in her room by her sister, Lavinia.{{cite web |title=Emily Dickinson 101 |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/70260/emily-dickinson-101 |website=Poetry Foundation |access-date=9 January 2025}}
| Louisa May Alcott (1)120pxThe Wayside formerly known as 'Hillside'1844–1848Concord
{{Coord|42|27|32|N|71|19|59|W|display=inline}}		Alcott used many of the experiences she and her sisters shared in this house in her book, Little Women. Nathaniel Hawthorne purchased the house from the Alcotts when they moved to Boston in 1848.{{cite web |title=The Wayside: Home of Authors |url=https://www.nps.gov/mima/learn/historyculture/thewayside.htm |website=National Park Service |access-date=10 January 2025}}
| Louisa May Alcott (2)120pxOrchard House1858–1877Concord
{{coord|42.4589
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson120pxRalph Waldo Emerson House1835–1882Concord
{{coord|42|27|27|N|71|20|39|W|display=inline}}		American essayist, philosopher and poet, Emerson and his wife moved to this house after their wedding. He lived here the rest of his life.{{cite web |title=Ralph Waldo Emerson House |url=https://www.nps.gov/places/ralph-waldo-emerson-house.htm |website=National Park Service |access-date=10 January 2025}}
| Henry Longfellow120pxLongfellow National Historic Site1843–1882Cambridge
{{coord|42|22|36|N|71|07|35|W		display=inline}}Before poet Longfellow resided here, it was the first headquarters of George Washington during the American Revolution. Longfellow lived in the house for almost 50 years.{{cite web |title=Longfellow House--Washington Headquarters |url=https://www.nps.gov/long/index.htm |website=National Park Service |access-date=14 January 2025}}
| Herman Melville120pxArrowhead (Herman Melville House)1850–1863Pittsfield
{{coord|42|24|55.4|N|73|14|55.7|W|region:US|display=inline}}		Melville wrote his most famous novels at Arrowhead.{{cite web |title=Herman Melville's Arrowhead |url=https://berkshirehistory.org/ |website=Berkshie County Historical Society |access-date=10 January 2025}}
| Nathaniel Hawthorne (1)120pxNathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace1804–1808Salem
{{coord|42|31|17.36|N|70|53|03.11|W|display=inline}}		Hawthorne and his mother moved from the house after his father died in 1808.{{cite web |title=Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace |url=https://walkiesthroughhistory.com/2021/02/08/nathaniel-hawthorne-birthplace/ |website=Walkies Through History |date=8 February 2021 |access-date=10 January 2025}}
| Nathaniel Hawthorne (2)120pxThe Wayside1852–1869Concord
{{Coord|42|27|32|N|71|19|59|W|display=inline}}		Wayside was the home to Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Sidney. Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter and the House of the Seven Gables here.
| Henry David Thoreau120pxThoreau–Alcott House1850–1862Concord
{{coord|42|27|30|N|71|21|30|W|display=inline}}		Thoreau moved to the house with his family in 1850 and lived here until his death. The house is privately owned.{{cite web |title=The Thoreau Alcott House |url=https://freedomsway.org/place/the-thoreau-alcott-house/ |website=Freedom's Way |access-date=10 January 2025}}
| Edith Wharton120pxThe Mount1902–1911Lenox
{{coord|42.3311
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Michigan

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| Ernest Hemingway120pxWindemere Cottage1900–1921Petoskey
{{coord|45.28081
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| Theodore Roethke120pxRoethke Houses1911–1925Saginaw
{{coord|43|25|00|N|83|59|14|W|display=inline}}		The house at 1759 Gratiot was known as The Stone House and was built by Roethke's uncle Carl. The house next door, at 1805 Gratiot, is Roethke's childhood home, and was built by his father, Otto. Roethke's sister, June, lived in the house until her death in 1997.{{cite web |title=Roethke houses |url=https://www.friendsofroethke.org/learn/roethkehouses |website=Friends of Roethke Foundation |access-date=10 January 2025}}

Minnesota

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| F. Scott Fitzgerald120pxF. Scott Fitzgerald House1918–1920Saint Paul
{{coord|44|56|29.5|N|93|7|30.5|W|display=inline}}		Fitzgerald re-wrote the draft of his first novel, This Side of Paradise in this house.{{cite web |title=F. Scott Fitzgerald Birthplace |url=https://saintpaulhistorical.com/items/show/119 |website=St Paul Historical Society |access-date=4 June 2024}}
| Sinclair Lewis120pxSinclair Lewis Boyhood Home1889–1902Sauk Centre
{{coord|45|44|14|N|94|57|26.5|W|display=inline}}		Lewis's boyhood home. He is the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.{{cite web |title=Sinclair Lewis Home |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/68000027_photos |website=National Park Service |access-date=10 January 2025}}{{cite web |title=About Sinclair Lewis |url=https://www.sinclairlewisfoundation.org/about-sinclair-lewis |website=The Sinclair Lewis Foundation |access-date=10 January 2025}}

Mississippi

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| William Faulkner120pxRowan Oak1930–1962Oxford
{{coord|34.3598
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| Eudora Welty120pxEudora Welty House1925–2001Jackson
{{coord|32|19|7.7|N|90|10|13.22|W|display=inline}}		Welty's parents built the house in 1925. This is where she lived here for nearly 80 years, entertained friends and family, worked in her garden and wrote her award-winning novels and short stories.{{cite web |title=The House |url=https://welty.mdah.ms.gov/about-house |website=Eudora Welty House and Garden |access-date=10 January 2025}}

Missouri

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| Maya Angelou120pxMaya Angelou Birthplace1928–1931St. Louis
{{coord|38.62278
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| Kate Chopin120pxKate Chopin House (St. Louis, Missouri)1928–1931St. Louis
{{coord|38|38|35|N|90|14|56|W|display=inline,title}}		American author best known for her novel, The Awakening (1899).
| Mark Twain120pxMark Twain boyhood home1844–1853Hannibal
{{coord|39.71205
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| last = Lissandrello | first = Stephen | title = Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Boyhood Home| work = National Register of Historic Places - Inventory Nomination Form | publisher = National Park Service | date = June 12, 1976 | url = {{NHLS url|id=66000419}} | format = pdf | accessdate = 11 January 2024}}

| Laura Ingalls Wilder120pxLaura Ingalls Wilder House1896–1957Mansfield
{{coord|37.10160
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Nebraska

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| Willa Cather120pxWilla Cather House1883–1890Red Cloud
{{coord|40|5|16|N|98|31|16|W|display=inline}}		Cather's childhood home. Her first two homes, the Willa Cather Birthplace and Willow Shade are in Virginia. She lived in the Nebraska home until she left for college in 1890.{{cite web |title=Short Biography about Willa Cather |url=https://www.willacather.org/about/life-literature |website=Willa Cather Childhood Home |access-date=12 January 2025}}

New Hampshire

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| Robert Frost (1)120pxRobert Frost Farm (Derry, New Hampshire)1900–1911Derry
{{coord|42|52|18|N|71|17|42|W|type:landmark_scale:10000_region:US|display=inline}}		Frost wrote the majority of his poems from A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) in this house.{{cite web |title=About the Farm |url=https://www.robertfrostfarm.org/about |website=Robert Frost Farm |access-date=12 January 2025}}
| Robert Frost (2)120pxThe Frost Place1911–1920Franconia
{{coord|44|12|46|N|71|45|27|W|region:US_type:landmark|display=inline}}		The family lived in the house until 1920 and then spent the next 20 years spending their summers here.{{cite web| url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5744 |title=Poetry Landmark: The Frost Place in Franconia, NH |publisher=Poets.org |accessdate=11 January 2025}}

New Jersey

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| Stephen Crane120pxArburtus Cottage1883–1892Asbury
{{coord|40.22404
74.00679|display=inline}}Crane began his writing career in this Asbury Park house.{{cite web |title=The Stephen Crane House |url=https://www.aphistoricalsociety.org/history/welcome-to-the-stephen-crane-house/ |website=Asbury Park Historical Society |access-date=10 September 2024}}
| Walt Whitman120pxWalt Whitman House1884–1892Camden
{{coord|39|56|33|N|75|7|26|W|display=inline}}		The only house that Whitman owned.{{cite web |title=Walt Whitman house historic site overview |url=https://www.nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/historic/waltwhitmanhouse.html |website=New Jersey State Park Service |access-date=12 January 2025}}
| William Carlos Williams120pxWilliam Carlos Williams House1913–1963Rutherford
{{coord|40|49|36|N|74|6|18|W|display=inline}}		The poet and physician lived and worked in this house for 50 years.{{cite web |title=A House With Poetic Cachet And a Doctor's Office |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/11/nyregion/a-house-with-poetic-cachet-and-a-doctor-s-office.html |website=New York Times |date=11 August 1996 |access-date=12 January 2025 |last1=Demasters |first1=Karen }}

New York

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| James Baldwin110pxJames Baldwin Residence1965–1987New York City
{{coord|40.77764
73.98043|display=inline}}Baldwin bought the building in 1965. He lived in apartment B; his mother lived above him in apartment 1B and his sister lived in apartment 4A. Author Toni Morrison lived in the building for a short time.{{cite web |title=James Baldwin Residence, New York City |url=https://www.nps.gov/places/james-baldwin-residence-new-york-city.htm |website=National Park Service |access-date=13 January 2025}}
| Washington Irving120pxSunnyside (Tarrytown, New York)1835–1859Tarrytown
{{coord|41|02|51.2|N|73|52|11.6|W|display=inline}}		This is the first home that Irving bought for himself and he lived here until his death in 1859. The house and gardens have been restored to how Irving's home looked the 1850s.{{cite web |title=Washington Irving's Sunnyside |url=https://www.hudsonrivervalley.com/sites/Washington-Irving-s-Sunnyside-/details |website=Hudson River Valley Heritage Area |access-date=13 January 2025}}
| Langston Hughes110pxLangston Hughes House1947–1967Harlem, New York City
{{coord|40.80745
73.94051|display=inline}}Hughes lived and worked on the top floor of the house. Here, Hughes wrote Montage of a Dream Deferred and I Wonder as I Wander.The house is currently open for events.{{cite web |title=Langston Hughes House |url=https://langstonhugheshouse.com/ |website=Lanston Huges House |access-date=13 January 2025}}
| James Weldon Johnson120pxJames Weldon Johnson Residence1925–1938Harlem, New York City
{{coord|40|48|55|N|73|56|35|W|display=inline}}		Legendery poet, novelist, songwriter, and civil rights activist. During the Harlem Renaissance, Johnson gained acclaim for his writing on Black culture.{{cite web |title=James Weldon Johnson |url=https://poets.org/poet/james-weldon-johnson |website=Poets.org |access-date=13 January 2025}}
| Herman Melville120pxHerman Melville House1838–1847Lansingburgh
{{coord|42|46|23|N|73|40|45|W|display=inline}}		The family moved to this small town and house from New York City after the death of Melville's father in 1832 left the family impoverished.Parker, Hershel. Herman Melville: A Biography. Volume One, 1819-1851. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996: 126. {{ISBN|0-8018-8185-4}}
| Carson McCullers (2)120pxCarson McCullers House1945–1967South Nyack
{{coord|41|5|9|N|73|55|11|W|display=inline}}		In this house, McCullers finished The Member of the Wedding and worked on other novels, short stories, plays and poetry. She lived here until her death in 1967.{{cite web |title=Carson McCullers 1917–1967 |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=44279 |website=The Historical Marker Database |access-date=13 January 2025}}
| Edna St. Vincent Millay120pxSteepletop1925–1950Austerlitz
{{coord|42|19|17.30|N|73|26|39.15|W|display=inline}}		The house is no longer open to the public.
| Edgar Allan Poe120pxEdgar Allan Poe Cottage1846–1849The Bronx, {{coord|40|51|55|N|73|53|40|W|region:US-NY_type:landmark|display=inline}}Poe's, wife, Virginia died in the home after a long illness. He wrote Annabel Lee The Cask of Amontillado, The Bells and other poems and short stories here.{{cite web |title=Edgar Allan Poe Cottage |url=https://historichousetrust.org/houses/edgar-allan-poe-cottage/ |website=Historic House Trust |access-date=13 January 2025}}
| Mark Twain120pxQuarry Farm1870–1900Elmira
{{coord|42|6|47|N|76|46|56|W|region:US_type:landmark|display=inline}}		Twain's family visited his wife's family home every summer for 30 years. Three of his daughters were born here. Today, it is used as a retreat for Mark Twain scholars.{{cite web |title=Quarry Farm Fellowships |url=https://marktwainstudies.com/fellowships/ |website=Center for Mark Twain Studies |date=12 June 2018 |access-date=13 January 2025}}
| Walt Whitman120pxWalt Whitman Birthplace1819–1824West Hills
{{coord|40|49|1.38|N|73|24|44.39|W|display=inline}}		Whitman's father, who was a carpenter, built the two-story farmhouse by hand in 1816.Schmidt, Shannon McKenna and Joni Rendon. Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Heminway's Key West. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2008: 46. {{ISBN|978-1-4262-0277-3}}

North Carolina

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| Carl Sandburg120pxCarl Sandburg Home1945–1967Hendersonville
{{coord|35.27145
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| Thomas Wolfe120pxThomas Wolfe House1906–1916Asheville
{{coord|35|35|51|N|82|33|03|W|display=inline}}		Wolfe's childhood home. He used the house for the setting of his first novel, Look Homeward Angel.{{cite web |title=Thomas Wolfe memorial |url=https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/thomas-wolfe-memorial |website=North Carolina Historic Sites |access-date=13 January 2025}}

Ohio

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| Paul Lawrence Dunbar120pxPaul Laurence Dunbar House1904–1906Dayton
{{coord|39|45|27.6|N|84|13|8.2|W|display=inline}}		Dunbar bought the house for his mother in 1902, but moved here after he separated from his wife. He suffered from ill health and died in the home in 1906.{{Cite book |last=Alexander |first=Eleanor C. |date=2001 |title=Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore |location=New York |publisher=New York University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/lyricsofsunshine00alex/page/192 192] |isbn=0-8147-0696-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/lyricsofsunshine00alex/page/192 }}
| Harriet Beecher Stowe120pxHarriet Beecher Stowe House (Cincinnati, Ohio)1833–1836Cincinnati
{{coord|39|7|58.88|N|84|29|15.57|W|display=inline}}		Henry Ward Beecher, leader in the women's suffrage movement also lived in this house.Hedrick, Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994: 67. {{ISBN|0-19-506639-1}}

Oregon

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| Zane Grey120pxZane Grey Cabin1926–1935{{coord|42.70179
123.80477|display=inline}}Grey's famous for his popular novels set in the American West.

Pennsylvania

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| Rachel Carson120pxRachel Carson Homestead1907–1929Springdale
{{coord|40.54663
79.78325|display=inline}}Carson's birthplace and childhood home. Her 1962 book Silent Spring initiated the modern environmentalist movement.{{cite web |title=Silent Spring and the Modern Environmental Movement |url=https://www.tamucc.edu/library/exhibits/s/sts/page/silent-spring |website=Texas A & M University |access-date=14 January 2025}}
| Pearl S. Buck (2)120pxPearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark1933–late 1960sBucks County
{{coord|40|21|36|N|75|13|11|W|display=inline}}		Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for her best-selling novel, The Good Earth.[https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1938/ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938] Accessed January 14, 2025 9, 2013
| John Updike120pxJohn Updike Childhood Home1932–1945Shillington, Pennsylvania
{{Coord|40|18|08|N|75|57|54|W|display=inline}}		Birthplace and childhood home of American novelist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.{{Cite web |last=Ruth |first=Amanda |title=John Updike Childhood Home / The John Updike Society |url=https://lvhistory.org/historic-sites/john-updike-childhood-home-the-john-updike-society/ |access-date=2022-08-05 |website=Lehigh Valley Passport To History |language=en-US}}

Texas

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| Katherine Ann Porter120pxKatherine Anne Porter House1892–1901Kyle
{{coord|29|59|21|N|97|52|46|W		display=inline}}Katherine's father moved his family to his mother's house in Kyle after Katherine's mother died in 1892 after giving birth.{{cite web |title=Katherine Anne Porter in the United States |url=https://exhibitions.lib.umd.edu/kaporter-correspondence/locations/united-states |website=University Libraries of Maryland |access-date=14 January 2025}}
| O. Henry120pxWilliam Sidney Porter House1893–1895Austin
{{coord|30|15|56.5|N|97|44|20.8|W|display=inline}}		Best selling author of the legendary short-stories The Gift of the Magi and The Ransom of Red Chief''.{{cite web |title=About the O.Henry Museum |url=https://www.austintexas.gov/department/about-o-henry-museum |website=AustinTexas.gov |access-date=14 January 2025}}

Washington D.C.

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| Frederick Douglass120pxFrederick Douglass National Historic Site1877–1895Kyle
{{coord|38|51|48|N|76|59|07|W|region:US-DC_type:landmark|display=inline}}		Douglass wrote the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in this house, which he named "Cedar Hill".Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2007: 276. {{ISBN|978-0-393-33065-6}}.
| Langston Hughes120pxLangston Hughes House, Washington D.C.1924–1926Washington D.C.
{{coord|30|15|56.5|N|97|44|20.8|W|display=inline}}		While living in the Italianate row house, "Hughes won his first poetry competition, and gave his first public readings. He got a contract for his first book of poems from Alfred A. Knopf in New York, finished his book manuscript, and published The Weary Blues in February 1926".{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=Kim |title=Langston Hughes in Washington, DC: Conflict and Class |url=https://washingtonart.com/beltway/hughes2.html#:~:text=He%20got%20a%20contract%20for,Weary%20Blues%20in%20February%201926. |website=Beltway Poetry Quarterly |access-date=14 January 2025}}

Vermont

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| Robert Frost (4)120pxRobert Frost Farm (Ripton, Vermont)1939–1963Ripton
{{coord|43|57|59|N|73|0|17|W|display=inline}}		Frost spent summers and part of fall here during the last 30 years of his life.{{cite web |title=Robert Frost in Ripton |url=https://vermonthistory.org/robert-frost-in-ripton |website=Vermont History |access-date=14 January 2025}}
| Robert Frost (3)120pxRobert Frost Stone House Museum1920-1929Shaftsbury
{{coord|42.93621
73.20953|display=inline}}While living in this house, Frost wrote many poems including the famous Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.{{cite web |title=Robert Frost Stone House Museum |url=https://www.bennington.edu/robert-frost-stone-house-museum |website=Bennington College |access-date=14 January 2025}}

Virginia

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| Willa Cather (1)120pxWilla Cather Birthplace1873–1874Gore
{{coord|39|16|3|N|78|19|27|W|display=inline}}		The Pulitzer-prize winning author was born in her grandmother, Rachel Boak's home in 1873.{{cite web |title=Chronology |url=https://cather.unl.edu/life/chronology |website=Willa Cather Archive |access-date=15 January 2025}}
| Willa Cather (2)120pxWillow Shade1874–1883Winchester
{{coord|39|16|06.7|N|78|18|28.7|W|display=inline}}		Cather's family lived in her paternal grandparent's home until they moved moved to Nebraska in 1883.
| Ellen Glasgow120pxEllen Glasgow House1890s–1945Richmond
{{coord|37|32|34|N|77|26|42|W|display=inline}}		Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel In This Our Life in 1942, Glasgow lived here from her teen years until her death in 1945.{{cite web |title=Ellen Glasgow: American Author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ellen-Glasgow |website=Britannica |access-date=24 January 2025}}

West Virginia

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| Pearl S. Buck (1)120pxPearl S. Buck BirthplaceHillsboro
{{coord|38|8|30|N|80|12|19|W|display=inline}}		1892Birthplace of Pulitzer and Nobel-prize winning author. Buck's parents were Presbyterian missionaries on furlough in this house when she was born. When Buck was five months old, her parents returned with her to China.{{cite web |title=A Biography of Pearl S. Buck |url=https://pearlsbuck.org/about/biography/#:~:text=Pearl%20Comfort%20Sydenstricker%20was%20born,five%20months%20after%20Pearl's%20birth. |website=Pearl S. Buck International | date=30 April 2021 |access-date=15 January 2025}}

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