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No castles on Main Street : American authors and their homes / by Stephanie Kraft.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kraft, Stephanie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--United States.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts.
- Authors, American--Biography.
- Literary landmarks.
- United States.
- Literary landmarks--United States.
- Historic buildings--United States.
- Historic buildings.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Rand McNally, [1979]
- Contents:
- H.L. Mencken and the Hollins Street house
- Hawthorne and the old manse
- Carl Sandburg and the railroad town
- Emily Dickinson and the homestead
- Hemingway and the island in the sun
- Thomas Wolfe, the angel, and the boardinghouse
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Newcomer at Cross Creek
- John Steinbeck: Salinas and the long valley
- Willa Cather, the prairie, and Red Cloud
- Mark Twain: Connecticut Yankee at home
- Emerson in Concord
- Edgar Allan Poe: Empty shrines on the Eastern seaboard
- Edith Wharton "at home": Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts
- William Faulkner and Rowan Oak
- Sinclair Lewis: No castles on Main street
- Laura Ingalls Wilder: House at the end of the road
- Walt Whitman and Mickle street house
- Sherwood Anderson's vanishing winesburg
- Flannery O'Connor: Redemption in Slash Pine country
- Paul Laurence Dunbar: Singer in Dayton
- Riley old home, Greenfield, Indiana
- Eugene field house, St. Louis
- George Washington Cable in New Orleans and Northampton
- Edgar Lee Masters and the Spoon River country
- Ellen Glasgow in Richmond
- F. Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul: On the threshold of the jazz age
- Jack London and wolf house
- O. Henry in Austin: Cops, robbers and the rolling stone
- Owen Wister and the wild west
- Robinson Jeffers and Tor house
- Directory of authors' homes
- Notes on sources.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kraft, Stephanie. No castles on Main Street.
- ISBN:
- 0528818287
- 9780528818288
- OCLC:
- 4775783
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