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18 Famous Authors’ Houses Worth Seeing
Bring your favorite books to life with a visit to one of these beautiful homes
In a letter to the American journalist Morton Fullerton, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Edith Wharton boasted of the gardens surrounding the Mount, her home near the town of Lenox, Massachusetts. “Decidedly, I’m a better landscape gardener than novelist,” she said, “and this place, every line of which is my own work, far surpasses The House of Mirth.” From Virginia Woolf’s country cottage to Ernest Hemingway’s Florida dwelling to Washington Irving’s Hudson Valley estate, these homes continue to captivate readers as spaces where great minds sought a tranquil retreat.