The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been
the home to many of our nation's most acclaimed writers. From the
city's founding to the beginnings of modernism, literary luminaries
including Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson,
Henry Adams, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston have lived and
worked at their craft in our nation's capital. In A Literary Guide
to Washington, DC, Kim Roberts offers a guide to the city's rich
literary history. Part walking tour, part anthology, A Literary
Guide to Washington, DC is organized into five sections, each
corresponding to a particularly vibrant period in Washington's
literary community. Starting with the city's earliest years,
Roberts examines writers such as Hasty-Pudding poet Joel Barlow and
""Star-Spangled Banner"" lyricist Francis Scott Key before moving
on to the Civil War and Reconstruction and touching on the lives of
authors such as Charlotte Forten Grimke and James Weldon Johnson.
She wraps up her tour with World War I and the Jazz Age, which
brought to the city some writers at the forefront of modernism,
including the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature,
Sinclair Lewis. The book's stimulating tours cover downtown, the
LeDroit Park and Shaw neighborhoods, Lafayette Square, and the
historic U Street district, bringing the history of the city to
life in surprising ways. Written for tourists, literary
enthusiasts, amateur historians, and armchair travelers, A Literary
Guide to Washington, DC offers a cultural tour of our nation's
capital through a lierary lens.
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