Last month, The New York Times ran a slideshow of Norman Mailer’s Brooklyn Heights apartment, which will be up for sale shortly. This got us thinking about our favorite authors, where they lived, and how much our environment shapes our work. (If it does, then we’re really in trouble, since we mostly write in a dark Brooklyn apartment with neighbors who smoke packs of cigarettes and scream at their children in languages we don’t understand.) A.N. Devers, a literary pilgrim, commissioned Michael Fusco and Emma Straub to make great, inexpensive posters of authors’ domiciles — from Emily Dickinson’s homestead to Zora Neale Hurston’s modest bungalow — and they are available here. If you’re interested in a writer’s first person account of her tour of famous authors’ homes, then check out A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses by Anne Trubek. Click through now to take a virtual tour of some of our favorite writers’ residences.
Truman Capote in his Brooklyn Heights apartment
Slim Aarons took this photo of Truman Capote in 1958, when the author was in his thirties. His penchant for all things kitsch is on display, but the silk wall hanging for whatever reason just kills us. You can view more of Aarons’ photos at Photographers Gallery.
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[...] is a new slideshow over at Flavorwire, offering an interesting glimpse into the homes of various notable authors. From the [...]
[...] Aquí una curiosa muestra de algunos escritores y los lugares donde vivían y escribían… bueno, es el pretexto para esta serie fotográfica. Por ejemplo, apenas vemos la entrada a la casa de Yukio Mishima (lámina 6) y a John Steinbeck se le ve muy cómodo sentado fumando en un sillón (lámina 9). Pero de todos modos, interesante esta serie fotográfica, surgida a propósito del anuncio de que el apartamento de Norman Mailer está en venta: Flavorwire » A Peek Inside Famous Writers’ Homes. [...]
[...] For readers who’ve wondered about the everyday surroundings of some of their favorite writers, we’ve posted links to photos of various writers’ studies/workrooms/living rooms before, but here are ten more such photos, posted yesterday at Flavorwire. [...]
I do not believe that this is Hemingway’s house in Key West (note the fans). This looks like Hemingway’s house in Cuba.
Villa Malaparte, Curzio Malaparte’s home – http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/hatschibratschi/stories/19520/comment
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Apparently writers made enough in the ye olde days to live in NYC apartments like these!
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[...] A peek inside famous authors’ homes. Honestly, I expected the Hemingway one to have more booze. But I suppose Papa wouldn’t have [...]
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