A Visit To The Literary South

 

 

DuBose Heyward’s enthralling story of “Porgy set in Charleston S.C.

 

 

Savannah,Georgia’s Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pirates House that played a part in his book “Treasure Island.” The childhood homes of Flannery O’Connor and Conrad Aiken are also in Savannah, as well as sites associated with John Berendt’s bestselling book, “Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil.”

 

Atlanta and  Margaret Mitchell’s tiny Peachtree Street apartment where she wrote”Gone with the Wind.” 

 

 

Thomas Wolfe, North Carolina’s most celebrated author, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who for two summers lived at the Grove Park Inn, a short driving distance from the Wolfe Memorial and the Biltmore Estate, the latter of which is North Carolina’smost visited tourist attraction

 

Ernest Hemingway’s Key West Spanish Colonial home on Whitehead Street and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ home in Cross Creek near Gainesville. Hemingway’s Key West home is where he completed the bulk of his most renowned works including; “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” and “A Farewell to Arms.” Most of the contents in the house belonged to him,making a visit all the more meaningful. Pages from Rawlings’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Yearling,” spring to life on a visit to her Cross Creek home. Nearby her former homestead is the Ocala National Forest, which provides a vivid snapshot of the landscape that so inspired her writing “The Yearling.”

 

New Orleans, Louisiana is the South’s most magical and mysterious city, with several literary luminaries among its roster, including: Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Walker Percy and Lillian Hellman.