A literary guide to Washington, DC
Subtitle: walking in the footsteps of American writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston
By: Kim Roberts
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780813941165; 9780813941172
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Guidebooks; Intellectual life; Literary landmarks; American literature; American Authors; Bio-bibliography
Description: "The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation's most acclaimed writers. From the city's founding to the beginnings of modernism, literary luminaries including Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Henry Adams, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston have lived and worked at their craft in our nation's capital ... Part walking tour, part anthology, [this book] is organized into five sections, each corresponding to a particularly vibrant period in Washington's literary [history]"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Beginnings, 1800-1861: Portraits; title: Joel Barlow; title: Francis Scott Key; title: Michael G. Shiner; title: Anne Lynch Botta; title: The Civil War era, 1861-1865. Walking tour 1: Walt Whitman's downtown: Portraits. John Burroughs; title: Solomon G. Brown; title: Charlotte Forten Grimke; title: Reconstruction, 1865-1878. Walking tour 2: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Dunbar-Nelson in Ledroit Park: Portraits. Frederick Douglass; title: Frances Hodgson Burnett; title: The Gilded Age, 1870-1910. Walking tour 3: Henry Adams in Lafayette Square: Portraits. Mark Twain; title: Ambrose Bierce; title: Elinor Wylie; title: The Jazz Age, 1920-1930. Walking tour 4: Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance along U Street: Portraits. Georgia Douglas Johnson; title: Sinclair Lewis; title: Jean Toomer; title: Zora Neale Hurston.