Virtual Field Trip Famous Authors

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Virtual Field Trip Famous Authors Homes

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• Wendy Johnson
• Patti Damico

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Edgar Allan Poe
www.thecemeteryproject.com/ Graves/franklin-be...
www.aboutfacts.net
Administered by the National Park Service, this
was Poe's residence for about a year in 1843
before he moved to New York City. Of his several
Philadelphia homes, only this one survives. It
serves as a tangible link with Poe at the height
of his literary achievements. Although best known
for his Gothic horror tales, Poe also created
beautiful poetry, was a pioneer science fiction
writer, and is credited with inventing the modern
detective story with Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Example of Poem Annabel Lee
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Emily Dickinson
Welcome to the Emily Dickinson Museum The
Homestead and The Evergreens! The Museum consists
of two historic houses in the center of Amherst,
Massachusetts, closely associated with the poet
Emily Dickinson and members of her family during
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The
Homestead was the birthplace and home of the poet
Emily Dickinson. The Evergreens, next door, was
home to her brother Austin, his wife Susan, and
their three children.
http//www.nationmaster.com
Example of poem Im Nobody
The Emily Dickinson Museum was created in 2003
when the two houses merged under the ownership of
Amherst College. The Museum is dedicated to
educating diverse audiences about Emily
Dickinsons life, family, creative work, times,
and enduring relevance, and to preserving and
interpreting the Homestead and The Evergreens as
historical resources for the benefit of scholars
and the general public.
http//www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/mission.html
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Robert Frost
Example of poem The Runaway
Poet and teacher, born in San Francisco,
California, USA. He studied at Dartmouth College
(1892) and Harvard (18979) but never took a
degree. He was a mill worker and teacher
(18927), a farmer in New Hampshire (190012),
and lived in England (191215) where his first
volume of poems, A Boy's Will, was published
(1913). Upon his return to New Hampshire he
settled on a farm but taught at many universities
and colleges in the ensuing years.
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http//www.poetsgraves.co.uk
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes, foreground, stands outside his
boyhood home in Lawrence in this circa 1914
photo. Hughes left Lawrence a year later to live
with his mother in Lincoln, Ill. He eventually
moved to New York, where he became the literary
stalwart of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance cultural
movement. The man in the background is
unidentified.
Example of poem Madam and the Rent Man
The Langston Hughes Branch Library in Cleveland
Ohio
www.bluffton.edu/
www.ljworld.com/.../ langstonhughes/story/81985
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Mildred Taylor
Example Of Novel Roll of Thunder, Here My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor was born in Jackson,
Mississippi, on September 13, 1943. She is the
daughter of Wilbert Lee and Deletha Marie (Davis)
Taylor. Even though she was born in the South,
she did not grow up there. Yet, for Ms. Taylor,
the South still holds pleasant memories as the
home of her family. When she was only three
months old, her parents moved her and her sister
to live in the North. They moved to a
newly-integrated Ohio town called Toledo. When
she went to school, she was the only black child
in her class. Her father decided to leave the
South in the mid-1940's because he did not want
his children to live their lives as he had lived
his, in a segregated, racist society that allowed
little or no opportunity to blacks.
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