I loved the book The Outsiders as a teenager and recently discovered there's an Outsiders museum in Tulsa. I'm also interested in the Little House on the Prairie museum in Kansas and Ingalls house in South Dakota.
In London I went to 221B Baker Street but didn't have time to go into the museum.
Not quite the same, but in NYC there's an exhibit in the library that has Charles Dickens's writing desk.
Have you ever visited an author's house or a museum dedicated to a book? Gone on a tour of a literary neighborhood? Something else?
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I haven’t but I love this idea. I’ve always wanted to visit Stephen King’s home in Maine.
I’ve tried to go to all the key locations in Europe that Hemingway had written about.
Still have Cuba, Key West and the Serengeti. I’d take photos instead of shooting at wildlife though
I visited Faulkner’s Rowan Oak home in Mississippi, it was pretty special. Classic southern home, nice and secluded amid the city and university thats developed around. His handwriting is still on a wall there.
I visited Haworth to see the Brontë Parsonage Museum and the village and I’ve also visited several sites related to Shakespeare (his grave, Anne Hathaway’s house, and Shakespeare’s birthplace).
I have also been to The Stanley Hotel where Stephen King visited and was inspired to write The Shining. Another one on my bucket list is Vermont to visit where Shirley Jackson lived.
I ~~went~~ forced my family to go a few hours out of the way to visit Monroeville, Alabama because of Harper Lee and To Kill A Mockingbird.
Then it turns out that everything is closed on Mondays. Whoops.