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Literature

"Back to Old Hannibal"
Enjoy a stop at Mark Twain's Missouri home and the Tom Sawyer Days Festival.

"Concord by the Book"
The famous authors who lived in this Massachusetts town are long gone, but their stories remain.

"Dare Everything"
Robert Louis Stevenson followed his heart from Scotland to California—crossing an ocean and a continent to win his lady love.

"The Days of Edgar Allan Poe"
The master of the modern mystery gets a rough start in Richmond.

"House of Hemingway"
Key West's favorite novelist and a little something to remember him by . . .

"The Literary World of Bram Stoker"
From London to Aberdeen and Everywhere in Between

"Off to Niagara Falls"
Charles Dickens' First American Tour.

"On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes"
History and myth merge in London, the home of the world's most famous detective.

"Sauk Centre, Minnesota"
The Home of Sinclair Lewis

"What A Dump!"
Margaret Mitchell bestowed that affectionate nickname on the Atlanta apartment where she wrote Gone With the Wind. It's now the centerpiece of an attraction that commemorates the author and her epic tale.

"Wilde About Nebraska"
Young Irishman Oscar Wilde passed through Lincoln, Nebraska, in April 1882, lecturing on aesthetics and criticizing the architecture of the University of Nebraska.

"Willa Cather’s Pioneer Town"
Weaving Tales from Memories of Red Cloud, Nebraska.

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