Seeds : one man's serendipitous journey to find the trees that inspired famous American writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton / Richard Horan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horan, Richard, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horan, Richard, 1957-.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

Authors, American.

Trees--Seeds--Miscellanea.

Trees.

Horan, Richard, 1957---Travel--United States.

Horan, Richard.

Travel.

Trees--Seeds.

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

xiii, 347, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper Perennial, [2011]

Summary:

Author Richard Horan describes his travels from L. Frank Baum's childhood home to Harper Lee's Alabama, gathering tree seeds and stories from the homes of America's most treasured authors.

Contents:

Lincoln, Twain, Presley, and Faulkner

L. Frank Baum

Jack Kerouac

Edith Wharton and Esther Forbes

Gettysburg

Back home

Henry Miller

Krishnamurti

Ken Kesey

John Muir

Pearl S. Buck

Shirley Jackson

Willa Cather

Back Home

Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Ancient Creek Indians, and F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Harper Lee and Truman Capote

Muhammad Ali

Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert Frost

Herman Melville

Yaddo

Rachel Carson

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson

Gettysburg redux

Appomattox courthouse and the American Chestnut Foundation

Thomas Wolfe

William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Sherwood Anderson, Louis Armstrong, and William S. Burroughs

Eudora Welty

Willie Morris and Tennessee William redux

William Faulkner redux

Helen Keller

Back home...and divine intervention.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780061861680

0061861685

OCLC:

670476356