Authors

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

This museum is dedicated to the most famous Irish writers in history.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

A plaque on a rock dedicated to a famous, forgotten author, and put in an impossible place.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

A historic casino where Dostoyevsky is said to have lost it all on a single spin of the roulette wheel.

This sculpture combines the literary Alice with her real-life inspiration.

The author of Alice in Wonderland spent his final years at this whimsical Victorian home.

This grassy, tree-lined hill shares a name with the much-loved novel that it inspired.

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

In a small Kentish seaside stands the former home of one of the greatest science-fiction writers.

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.

This rare effigy of the author spent years lost in storage.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.