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Award-winning book writer and illustrator Edward Gorey has a museum. Rumor has it, he probably wouldn’t have loved the idea of his home being turned into a museum after his death in 2000, but thankfully …

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Literary places to visit for hardcore lit fans
It’s easy to visit Edgar Allan Poe’s home in Baltimore – it’s a must-see for most Baltimore tourists – or Charles Dickens’ home in London. But the hardcore …

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Guest post by Matt Herbert
There’s no crime fiction series more popular than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. From the four books and 56 short stories to the dozens of movies and television adaptions to …

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s work is sought out by architecture buffs on a regular basis, but in the last five years fiction readers are seeking out his life’s work, too.
Nancy Horan’s book, Loving Frank, was published …

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By Jennifer Noble
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 I went on a recent exploration of the Sioux City Art Center  in Sioux City, Iowa, and had a blast!  I knew there was a Da Vinci exhibit on the way, so …

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To Buffalo residents, everything in the series of books about Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire is more than real: the people, the places and even the food. Now fans of the books and new TV series …

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Wheaton College in Chicago pays tribute to seven famous authors at their Marion E. Wade Center. All British and all Christian theme driven, these seven authors, including J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis , are known …

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by Candy B. Harrington
Littered with souvenir shops and chowder houses, Cannery Row is a popular stop on most any Monterey itinerary. But for Steinbeck fans it holds an added appeal, as the author took many …

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Re-enactor Joe Wiegand greets the visitors at Roosevelt’s 150th birthday celebration.

Naturalist, rancher, explorer and of course president, Theodore Roosevelt, easily makes the list of the United States’ most loved presidents.

Historical fiction about the president can …

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By Jennifer Bertram
Maybe it was the relatively limited selection in my small hometown’s public library, my voracious reading appetite, or a connection I felt to the heroine, but I was arguably the biggest fan of …

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Greenville, South Carolina hits a home run for baseball fans with the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum.
“Most Americans learn about Shoeless Joe Jackson through the movie ‘Field of Dreams,’” Arlene Marcley, president of the Shoeless Joe …

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Guest post by Kara Dirkson, ASA and owner of Artisia Fine Art Services
Not so long ago I discovered the writing of Minnesota native Siri Hustvedt.  She writes fiction as well as non-fiction and in both …

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NOTE: The museum is closed for refurbishment from 10th April until December 2012
 
It is the best of times at the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
The museum at 48 Doughty Street, London, first opened in 1925, …