# List of residences of American writers

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

| Writer | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | | The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum | 1931–1932 | Montgomery 32°21′32″N 86°17′32″W﻿ / ﻿32.35883°N 86.29227°W﻿ / 32.35883; -86.29227 | Fitzgerald worked on the novel Tender Is The Night in this house. This is the last home the Fitzeralds lived together as a family. |
| Truman Capote | | The Faulk home site | 1927–1933 | Monroeville 31°31′26″N 87°19′26″W﻿ / ﻿31.52395°N 87.32389°W﻿ / 31.52395; -87.32389 | Capote lived with his mother's relatives in the Faulk home from 1927 to 1933 and spent several summers here after 1933. |

## California

| Writer | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Robinson Jeffers | Tor house | 1919–1962 | Carmel 36°32′31.5″N 121°55′56″W﻿ / ﻿36.542083°N 121.93222°W﻿ / 36.542083; -121.93222 | Jeffers wrote all his major works of poetry in this house. |
| Jack London | Wolf house and ranch | 1905–1913 | Glen Ellen 38°21′2″N 122°32′35″W﻿ / ﻿38.35056°N 122.54306°W﻿ / 38.35056; -122.54306 | 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. |
| Eugene O'Neill | O'Neill home | 1937–1944 | Danville 37°49′28″N 122°1′47″W﻿ / ﻿37.82444°N 122.02972°W﻿ / 37.82444; -122.02972 | O'Neill wrote several plays in this house, including The Iceman Cometh and A Moon for the Misbegotten. |
| Upton Sinclair | Sinclair house | 1942–1966 | Monrovia 34°9′44″N 118°0′0″W﻿ / ﻿34.16222°N 118.00000°W﻿ / 34.16222; -118.00000 | Sinclair, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943, wrote many of his later novels in this house. |
| John Steinbeck | Steinbeck house | 1902–1919 | Salinas 36°40′36″N 121°39′29″W﻿ / ﻿36.67667°N 121.65806°W﻿ / 36.67667; -121.65806 | Steinbeck's birthplace and childhood home. He completed The Red Pony and Tortilla Flat here in the 1930s. |

## Connecticut

| Writer | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Eugene O'Neill | Monte Cristo Cottage | 1900–1920 | New London 41°19′55″N 72°5′46.5″W﻿ / ﻿41.33194°N 72.096250°W﻿ / 41.33194; -72.096250 | O'Neill's summer childhood home and setting of two of his plays. |
| Mark Twain | Twain House | 1874–1891 | Hartford 41°46′1.5″N 72°42′5.0″W﻿ / ﻿41.767083°N 72.701389°W﻿ / 41.767083; -72.701389 | Twain wrote many of his most popular novels in this house. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Stowe House | 1873–1896 | Hartford 41°46′1.14″N 72°42′2.81″W﻿ / ﻿41.7669833°N 72.7007806°W﻿ / 41.7669833; -72.7007806 | 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). |
| Noah Webster | Webster house | 1758–1774 | West Hartford 41°44′46.27″N 72°44′47.4″W﻿ / ﻿41.7461861°N 72.746500°W﻿ / 41.7461861; -72.746500 | Webster's birthplace. He lived in the house until he left for college. |

## Florida

| Writer | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Ernest Hemingway | Key West house | 1931–1939 | Key West 24°33′05″N 81°48′02″W﻿ / ﻿24.55143°N 81.80061°W﻿ / 24.55143; -81.80061 | 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. |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Zora Neale Hurston House | 1957–1960 | Fort Pierce 27°27′39″N 80°20′31″W﻿ / ﻿27.46083°N 80.34194°W﻿ / 27.46083; -80.34194 | 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. |
| Jack Kerouac | Jack Kerouac House | 1957–1958 | Orlando 28°33′52″N 81°23′30″W﻿ / ﻿28.56444°N 81.39167°W﻿ / 28.56444; -81.39167 | American novelist and poet of the Beat Generation, Kerouac wrote The Dharma Bums in this small cottage. |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Cross Creek house | 1929–1953 | Cross Creek 29°28′53″N 82°9′37″W﻿ / ﻿29.48139°N 82.16028°W﻿ / 29.48139; -82.16028 | The Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Yearling, was written by Rawlings in her Florida cracker-style house. |

## Georgia

| Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Joel Chandler Harris | | Wren's Nest | 1881–1908 | Atlanta 33°44′16″N 84°25′20″W﻿ / ﻿33.73764°N 84.42219°W﻿ / 33.73764; -84.42219 | Harris is the author of the legendary Uncle Remus tales. |
| Carson McCullers (1) | image needed | Carson McCullers Childhood Home | 1917–1934 | Atlanta 33°44′16″N 84°25′20″W﻿ / ﻿33.73764°N 84.42219°W﻿ / 33.73764; -84.42219 | 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. |
| Margaret Mitchell | | Margaret Mitchell House and Museum | 1925–1932 | Atlanta 33°46′53.02″N 84°23′4.62″W﻿ / ﻿33.7813944°N 84.3846167°W﻿ / 33.7813944; -84.3846167 | Mitchell wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning-novel Gone with the Wind here. |
| Flannery O'Connor (1) | | O'Connor Childhood Home | 1925–1938 | Savannah 32°04′21″N 81°05′29″W﻿ / ﻿32.07251°N 81.09146°W﻿ / 32.07251; -81.09146 | Birthplace of O'Connor; the museum is open to the public. |
| Flannery O'Connor (2) | | Andalusia farm | 1951–1964 | Milledgeville 33°07′31″N 83°16′04″W﻿ / ﻿33.12526°N 83.26775°W﻿ / 33.12526; -83.26775 | This area of Georgia was the setting for many of O'Connor's short stories. |

## Illinois

| Name | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Ernest Hemingway | Birthplace of Ernest Hemingway | 1899–1905 | Oak Park 41°53′34″N 87°47′42″W﻿ / ﻿41.892778°N 87.795081°W﻿ / 41.892778; -87.795081 | 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. |
| Vachel Lindsay | Vachel Lindsay House | 1879–1931 | Springfield 39°47′46″N 89°38′59″W﻿ / ﻿39.79616°N 89.64964°W﻿ / 39.79616; -89.64964 | American poet known for his performance poetry. |
| Carl Sandburg | Carl Sandburg State Historic Site | 1878–1896 | Galesburg 40°56′11″N 90°21′57″W﻿ / ﻿40.93650°N 90.36583°W﻿ / 40.93650; -90.36583 | Birthplace of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer. |

## Louisiana

| Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Robert Penn Warren | | Robert Penn Warren House | 1941–1942 | Prairieville 30°18′30″N 90°58′25″W﻿ / ﻿30.30823°N 90.9736°W﻿ / 30.30823; -90.9736 | The private residence, known as Twin Oaks, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |

## Maine

| Name | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Stephen King | Stephen and Tabitha King home | 1980–present | Bangor 44°48′09″N 68°47′06″W﻿ / ﻿44.80251°N 68.78501°W﻿ / 44.80251; -68.78501 | Home of best-selling author of horror novels including Carrie and The Shining, this Victorian mansion lies in Bangor's Whitney Park Historic District. |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | Jewett-Eastman House | 1850-? | South Berwick43°14′6″N 70°48′33″W﻿ / ﻿43.23500°N 70.80917°W﻿ / 43.23500; -70.80917 | Jewett's childhood home. She is best known for "The Country of the Pointed Firs" (1896) and “A White Heron,” (1886). |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Stowe House | 1850–1852 | Brunswick 43°54′46″N 69°57′39″W﻿ / ﻿43.91278°N 69.96083°W﻿ / 43.91278; -69.96083 | Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) in this house. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Wadsworth-Longfellow House | 1807–1842 | Portland 43°39′25″N 70°15′37″W﻿ / ﻿43.65693°N 70.26020°W﻿ / 43.65693; -70.26020 | Childhood home of legendary American poet, whose work includes "Paul Revere's Ride" and the "The Song of Hiawatha". |

## Maryland

| Name | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| H.L. Mencken | H. L. Mencken House | 1883–1956 | Baltimore 39°17′15.2″N 76°38′30.6″W﻿ / ﻿39.287556°N 76.641833°W﻿ / 39.287556; -76.641833 | The house was opened to the public in 2019. |
| Rachel Carson | Carson House, Colesville | 1956–1964 | Colesville 39°2′48″N 77°0′2″W﻿ / ﻿39.04667°N 77.00056°W﻿ / 39.04667; -77.00056 | Carson wrote her legendary work, "Silent Spring", in this house in 1962. |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Poe House, Baltimore | 1833–1835 | Baltimore 39°17′29″N 76°37′59″W﻿ / ﻿39.29150°N 76.63319°W﻿ / 39.29150; -76.63319 | Poe moved into his aunt Elizabeth's rental house in 1833 after he graduated from Westpoint Military Academy. |
| Gertrude Stein | David Bachrach House | 1892 | Baltimore 39°18′50.6″N 76°38′9.5″W﻿ / ﻿39.314056°N 76.635972°W﻿ / 39.314056; -76.635972 | 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

| Name | Residence | Years | Location | Notes |
| E. E. Cummings | E. E. Cummings House | 1894–1917 | Cambridge 42°22′43.6″N 71°6′38.5″W﻿ / ﻿42.378778°N 71.110694°W﻿ / 42.378778; -71.110694 | The childhood home of the author and poet, Cummings lived here until he graduated from Harvard University in 1917. |
| Edward Gorey | The Elephant House | 1986–2000 | Cape Cod 41°42′19″N 70°14′33″W﻿ / ﻿41.70528°N 70.24250°W﻿ / 41.70528; -70.24250 | The house is a museum displaying Gorey's life and work. |
| Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson Museum | 1855–1886 | Amherst 42°22′34″N 72°30′52″W﻿ / ﻿42.37611°N 72.51444°W﻿ / 42.37611; -72.51444 | After Dickinson's death, 1800 poems were discovered in her room by her sister, Lavinia. |
| Louisa May Alcott (1) | The Wayside formerly known as 'Hillside' | 1844–1848 | Concord 42°27′32″N 71°19′59″W﻿ / ﻿42.45889°N 71.33306°W﻿ / 42.45889; -71.33306 | 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. |
| Louisa May Alcott (2) | Orchard House | 1858–1877 | Concord 42°27′32″N 71°20′06″W﻿ / ﻿42.4589°N 71.3351°W﻿ / 42.4589; -71.3351 | This home is adjacent to Nathaniel Hawthorne's home, The Wayside. Alcott wrote Little Women in this house (1868–1869). |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ralph Waldo Emerson House | 1835–1882 | Concord 42°27′27″N 71°20′39″W﻿ / ﻿42.45750°N 71.34417°W﻿ / 42.45750; -71.34417 | American essayist, philosopher and poet, Emerson and his wife moved to this house after their wedding. He lived here the rest of his life. |
| Henry Longfellow | Longfellow National Historic Site | 1843–1882 | Cambridge 42°22′36″N 71°07′35″W﻿ / ﻿42.37667°N 71.12639°W﻿ / 42.37667; -71.12639 | 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. |
| Herman Melville | Arrowhead (Herman Melville House) | 1850–1863 | Pittsfield 42°24′55.4″N 73°14′55.7″W﻿ / ﻿42.415389°N 73.248806°W﻿ / 42.415389; -73.248806 | Melville wrote his most famous novels at Arrowhead. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne (1) | Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace | 1804–1808 | Salem 42°31′17.36″N 70°53′03.11″W﻿ / ﻿42.5214889°N 70.8841972°W﻿ / 42.5214889; -70.8841972 | Hawthorne and his mother moved from the house after his father died in 1808. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne (2) | The Wayside | 1852–1869 | Concord 42°27′32″N 71°19′59″W﻿ / ﻿42.45889°N 71.33306°W﻿ / 42.45889; -71.33306 | 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 Thoreau | Thoreau–Alcott House | 1850–1862 | Concord 42°27′30″N 71°21′30″W﻿ / ﻿42.45833°N 71.35833°W﻿ / 42.45833; -71.35833 | Thoreau moved to the house with his family in 1850 and lived here until his death. The house is privately owned. |
| Edith Wharton | The Mount | 1902–1911 | Lenox 42°19′52″N 73°16′55″W﻿ / ﻿42.3311°N 73.2820°W﻿ / 42.3311; -73.2820 | Wharton designed both the house and garden, inspired by works of art. |

## Michigan

| Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Ernest Hemingway | | Windemere Cottage | 1900–1921 | Petoskey 45°16′51″N 85°00′04″W﻿ / ﻿45.28081°N 85.00108°W﻿ / 45.28081; -85.00108 | The cottage was used during Hemingway's childhood as his family's summer home. Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson spent their honeymoon in the cottage. It is a private residence. |
| Theodore Roethke | | Roethke Houses | 1911–1925 | Saginaw 43°25′00″N 83°59′14″W﻿ / ﻿43.41667°N 83.98722°W﻿ / 43.41667; -83.98722 | 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. |

## Minnesota

| Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | | F. Scott Fitzgerald House | 1918–1920 | Saint Paul 44°56′29.5″N 93°7′30.5″W﻿ / ﻿44.941528°N 93.125139°W﻿ / 44.941528; -93.125139 | Fitzgerald re-wrote the draft of his first novel, This Side of Paradise in this house. |
| Sinclair Lewis | | Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home | 1889–1902 | Sauk Centre 45°44′14″N 94°57′26.5″W﻿ / ﻿45.73722°N 94.957361°W﻿ / 45.73722; -94.957361 | Lewis's boyhood home. He is the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. |

## Mississippi

| Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| William Faulkner | | Rowan Oak | 1930–1962 | Oxford 34°21′35″N 89°31′29″W﻿ / ﻿34.3598°N 89.5247°W﻿ / 34.3598; -89.5247 | Faulkner did many of the renovations on the house. The penciled plot of his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Fable, can still be seen on the plaster walls of his office. |
| Eudora Welty | | Eudora Welty House | 1925–2001 | Jackson 32°19′7.7″N 90°10′13.22″W﻿ / ﻿32.318806°N 90.1703389°W﻿ / 32.318806; -90.1703389 | 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. |

## Missouri

| Name | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Maya Angelou | Maya Angelou Birthplace | 1928–1931 | St. Louis 38°37′22″N 90°13′47″W﻿ / ﻿38.62278°N 90.22970°W﻿ / 38.62278; -90.22970 | The birthplace of writer Maya Angelou. |
| Kate Chopin | Kate Chopin House (St. Louis, Missouri) | 1928–1931 | St. Louis 38°38′35″N 90°14′56″W﻿ / ﻿38.64306°N 90.24889°W﻿ / 38.64306; -90.24889 | American author best known for her novel, The Awakening (1899). |
| Mark Twain | Mark Twain boyhood home | 1844–1853 | Hannibal 39°42′43″N 91°21′28″W﻿ / ﻿39.71205°N 91.35786°W﻿ / 39.71205; -91.35786 | Twain's life in Hannibal inspired his writing of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | Laura Ingalls Wilder House | 1896–1957 | Mansfield 37°06′06″N 92°33′24″W﻿ / ﻿37.10160°N 92.55678°W﻿ / 37.10160; -92.55678 | Wilder wrote the Little House on the Prairie books while living in the house. |

## Nebraska

| Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Willa Cather | | Willa Cather House | 1883–1890 | Red Cloud 40°5′16″N 98°31′16″W﻿ / ﻿40.08778°N 98.52111°W﻿ / 40.08778; -98.52111 | 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. |

## New Hamsphire

| Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Robert Frost (1) | | Robert Frost Farm (Derry, New Hampshire) | 1900–1911 | Derry 42°52′18″N 71°17′42″W﻿ / ﻿42.87167°N 71.29500°W﻿ / 42.87167; -71.29500 | Frost wrote the majority of his poems from A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) in this house. |
| Robert Frost (2) | | The Frost Place | 1911–1920 | Franconia 44°12′46″N 71°45′27″W﻿ / ﻿44.21278°N 71.75750°W﻿ / 44.21278; -71.75750 | The family lived in the house until 1920 and then spent the next 20 years spending their summers here. |

## New Jersey

| Name | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Stephen Crane | Arburtus Cottage | 1883–1892 | Asbury 40°13′27″N 74°00′24″W﻿ / ﻿40.22404°N 74.00679°W﻿ / 40.22404; -74.00679 | Crane began his writing career in this Asbury Park house. |
| Walt Whitman | Walt Whitman House | 1884–1892 | Camden 39°56′33″N 75°7′26″W﻿ / ﻿39.94250°N 75.12389°W﻿ / 39.94250; -75.12389 | The only house that Whitman owned. |
| William Carlos Williams | William Carlos Williams House | 1913–1963 | Rutherford 40°49′36″N 74°6′18″W﻿ / ﻿40.82667°N 74.10500°W﻿ / 40.82667; -74.10500 | The poet and physician lived and worked in this house for 50 years. |

## New York

| Name | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| James Baldwin | James Baldwin Residence | 1965–1987 | New York City 40°46′40″N 73°58′50″W﻿ / ﻿40.77764°N 73.98043°W﻿ / 40.77764; -73.98043 | 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. |
| Washington Irving | Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York) | 1835–1859 | Tarrytown 41°02′51.2″N 73°52′11.6″W﻿ / ﻿41.047556°N 73.869889°W﻿ / 41.047556; -73.869889 | 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. |
| Langston Hughes | Langston Hughes House | 1947–1967 | Harlem, New York City 40°48′27″N 73°56′26″W﻿ / ﻿40.80745°N 73.94051°W﻿ / 40.80745; -73.94051 | 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. |
| James Weldon Johnson | James Weldon Johnson Residence | 1925–1938 | Harlem, New York City 40°48′55″N 73°56′35″W﻿ / ﻿40.81528°N 73.94306°W﻿ / 40.81528; -73.94306 | Legendery poet, novelist, songwriter, and civil rights activist. During the Harlem Renaissance, Johnson gained acclaim for his writing on Black culture. |
| Herman Melville | Herman Melville House | 1838–1847 | Lansingburgh 42°46′23″N 73°40′45″W﻿ / ﻿42.77306°N 73.67917°W﻿ / 42.77306; -73.67917 | 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. |
| Carson McCullers (2) | Carson McCullers House | 1945–1967 | South Nyack 41°5′9″N 73°55′11″W﻿ / ﻿41.08583°N 73.91972°W﻿ / 41.08583; -73.91972 | 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. |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | Steepletop | 1925–1950 | Austerlitz 42°19′17.30″N 73°26′39.15″W﻿ / ﻿42.3214722°N 73.4442083°W﻿ / 42.3214722; -73.4442083 | The house is no longer open to the public. |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe Cottage | 1846–1849 | The Bronx, 40°51′55″N 73°53′40″W﻿ / ﻿40.86528°N 73.89444°W﻿ / 40.86528; -73.89444 | 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. |
| Mark Twain | Quarry Farm | 1870–1900 | Elmira 42°6′47″N 76°46′56″W﻿ / ﻿42.11306°N 76.78222°W﻿ / 42.11306; -76.78222 | 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. |
| Walt Whitman | Walt Whitman Birthplace | 1819–1824 | West Hills 40°49′1.38″N 73°24′44.39″W﻿ / ﻿40.8170500°N 73.4123306°W﻿ / 40.8170500; -73.4123306 | Whitman's father, who was a carpenter, built the two-story farmhouse by hand in 1816. |

## North Carolina

| Name | Image | Place | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Carl Sandburg | | Carl Sandburg Home | 1945–1967 | Hendersonville 35°16′17″N 82°26′50″W﻿ / ﻿35.27145°N 82.44723°W﻿ / 35.27145; -82.44723 | Sandburg moved here with his family for a quieter environment for his writing. His wife raised, what are now a historic breed of dairy goats on the farm. |
| Thomas Wolfe | | Thomas Wolfe House | 1906–1916 | Asheville 35°35′51″N 82°33′03″W﻿ / ﻿35.59750°N 82.55083°W﻿ / 35.59750; -82.55083 | Wolfe's childhood home. He used the house for the setting of his first novel, Look Homeward Angel. |

## Ohio

| Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Paul Lawrence Dunbar | | Paul Laurence Dunbar House | 1904–1906 | Dayton 39°45′27.6″N 84°13′8.2″W﻿ / ﻿39.757667°N 84.218944°W﻿ / 39.757667; -84.218944 | 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. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | | Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Cincinnati, Ohio) | 1833–1836 | Cincinnati 39°7′58.88″N 84°29′15.57″W﻿ / ﻿39.1330222°N 84.4876583°W﻿ / 39.1330222; -84.4876583 | Henry Ward Beecher, leader in the women's suffrage movement also lived in this house. |

## Oregon

| Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Zane Grey | | Zane Grey Cabin | 1926–1935 | 42°42′06″N 123°48′17″W﻿ / ﻿42.70179°N 123.80477°W﻿ / 42.70179; -123.80477 | Grey's famous for his popular novels set in the American West. |

## Pennsylvania

| Name | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Rachel Carson | Rachel Carson Homestead | 1907–1929 | Springdale 40°32′48″N 79°47′00″W﻿ / ﻿40.54663°N 79.78325°W﻿ / 40.54663; -79.78325 | Carson's birthplace and childhood home. Her 1962 book Silent Spring initiated the modern environmentalist movement. |
| Pearl S. Buck (2) | Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark | 1933–late 1960s | Bucks County 40°21′36″N 75°13′11″W﻿ / ﻿40.36000°N 75.21972°W﻿ / 40.36000; -75.21972 | Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for her best-selling novel, The Good Earth. |
| John Updike | John Updike Childhood Home | 1932–1945 | Shillington, Pennsylvania 40°18′08″N 75°57′54″W﻿ / ﻿40.30222°N 75.96500°W﻿ / 40.30222; -75.96500 | Birthplace and childhood home of American novelist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. |

## Texas

| Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Katherine Ann Porter | | Katherine Anne Porter House | 1892–1901 | Kyle 29°59′21″N 97°52′46″W﻿ / ﻿29.98917°N 97.87944°W﻿ / 29.98917; -97.87944 | Katherine's father moved his family to his mother's house in Kyle after Katherine's mother died in 1892 after giving birth. |
| O. Henry | | William Sidney Porter House | 1893–1895 | Austin 30°15′56.5″N 97°44′20.8″W﻿ / ﻿30.265694°N 97.739111°W﻿ / 30.265694; -97.739111 | Best selling author of the legendary short-stories The Gift of the Magi and The Ransom of Red Chief. |

## Washington D.C.

| Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Frederick Douglass | | Frederick Douglass National Historic Site | 1877–1895 | Kyle 38°51′48″N 76°59′07″W﻿ / ﻿38.86333°N 76.98528°W﻿ / 38.86333; -76.98528 | Douglass wrote the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in this house, which he named "Cedar Hill". |
| Langston Hughes | | Langston Hughes House, Washington D.C. | 1924–1926 | Washington D.C. 30°15′56.5″N 97°44′20.8″W﻿ / ﻿30.265694°N 97.739111°W﻿ / 30.265694; -97.739111 | 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". |

## Vermont

| Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Robert Frost (4) | | Robert Frost Farm (Ripton, Vermont) | 1939–1963 | Ripton 43°57′59″N 73°0′17″W﻿ / ﻿43.96639°N 73.00472°W﻿ / 43.96639; -73.00472 | Frost spent summers and part of fall here during the last 30 years of his life. |
| Robert Frost (3) | | Robert Frost Stone House Museum | 1920-1929 | Shaftsbury 42°56′10″N 73°12′34″W﻿ / ﻿42.93621°N 73.20953°W﻿ / 42.93621; -73.20953 | While living in this house, Frost wrote many poems including the famous Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. |

## Virginia

| Name | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Willa Cather (1) | Willa Cather Birthplace | 1873–1874 | Gore 39°16′3″N 78°19′27″W﻿ / ﻿39.26750°N 78.32417°W﻿ / 39.26750; -78.32417 | The Pulitzer-prize winning author was born in her grandmother, Rachel Boak's home in 1873. |
| Willa Cather (2) | Willow Shade | 1874–1883 | Winchester 39°16′06.7″N 78°18′28.7″W﻿ / ﻿39.268528°N 78.307972°W﻿ / 39.268528; -78.307972 | Cather's family lived in her paternal grandparent's home until they moved moved to Nebraska in 1883. |
| Ellen Glasgow | Ellen Glasgow House | 1890s–1945 | Richmond 37°32′34″N 77°26′42″W﻿ / ﻿37.54278°N 77.44500°W﻿ / 37.54278; -77.44500 | 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. |

## West Virginia

| Name | Image | Residence | Years | Coordinates | Notes |
| Pearl S. Buck (1) | | Pearl S. Buck Birthplace | Hillsboro 38°8′30″N 80°12′19″W﻿ / ﻿38.14167°N 80.20528°W﻿ / 38.14167; -80.20528 | 1892 | Birthplace 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. |