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Robert Penn Warren

  • Robert Penn Warren Center, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, 1994

Eudora Welty

  • Hotel Monteleone (associated with Capote, Ford, Welty, Faulkner, Williams), New Orleans, LA, 1999

Oscar Wilde

  • Menger Hotel (associated with Oscar Wilde, O. Henry, and Theodore Roosevelt), San Antonio, TX, 2000

Tennessee Williams

  • St. George's Episcopal Church Rectory, Clarksdale, MS
    Site where the writings of Tennessee Williams were influenced by the people, land, and spirit of Mississippi's Delta, Dedicated 2003
  • Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, LA
    Associated with Capote, Ford, Welty, Faulkner, Williams. Dedicated 1999
  • Tennessee Williams house, Key West, FL
    Residence of playwright Tennessee Williams from 1949 to 1983. Dedicated January 16, 2004. Partners: Florida Center for the Book
  • The Tennessee Williams Visitors Center, Columbus, MS
    Author, playwright, and poet Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams (1911-1983), was born in Columbus, Mississippi. In tribute to his life and writings, this site, formerly the rectory of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, was dedicated a Literary Landmark. Dedicated September 10, 2004. Partners: The Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library and the Tennessee Williams Tribute Committee
  • Tennessee Williams House, New Orleans, LA
    Tennessee Williams owned this 19th-century townhouse from 1962 until his death in 1983. Here he worked on his autobiography, Memoirs, in which he wrote, "I hope to die in my sleep… in this beautiful big brass bed in my New Orleans apartment, the bed that is associated with so much love…" He always considered New Orleans his spiritual home. Dedicated June 2006. Partners: Friends of the New Orleans Public Library. More information.

William Carlos Williams

  • William Carlos Williams Home, Rutherford, NJ
    Lifelong home of William Carlos Williams, writer, physician, friend, and neighbor. Dedicated September 17, 2005. Partners: Rutherford Free Public Library

Richard Wright

  • Cossitt Library, Memphis, TN, 1998
  • Hall Branch of the Chicago Public Library (associated with Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Anna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Zora Neale Hurston), Chicago, IL, 1998