Author List, Volume I

I have gone on a bit of a hiatus. I am still interested in the twee little essays, but I don't have time to do them for the foreseeable future, and as the main purpose of this blog is supposed to be to store my various lists, which is not being done, I am going to devote the next 60 or so posts to doing that. Trust me, it will be fun, and I hope sometime we can have a meet-up of all the devotees and groupies of the site in one of our dominant literary cities.

Authors, Subjects, Pertinent Sites, Volume I:

Robert Sherwood (1896-1955): Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938). BP: New Rochelle, Westchester, New York (address unknown). Buried: Unknown (d. New York, New York). College: Harvard.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) BP: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, Hodgenville, Kentucky. Buried: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. Other major sites: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, 112 North 6th Street, Springfield Illinois; Library & Museum, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee; Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois; Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, 511 10th Street NW, Washington, D.C; Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City, Indiana; The Lincoln Depot, 10th & Monroe Streets, Springfield, Illinois; The Lincoln Family Church, 321 South Seventh Street, Springfield, Illinois; Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices, 6th & Adams Streets, Springfield, Illinois; Old State Capitol State Historic Site, Downtown Mall, Springfield, Illinois: Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.; President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldier's Home, Upshur Street at Rock Creek Church Road NW, Washington, D.C.; Lincoln Memorial Shrine, 125 West Vine Street, Redlands, San Bernardino, California; Lincoln Museum, 66 Lincoln Square, Hodgenville, Kentucky; Abraham Lincoln's Long Nine Museum, 200 South Main St, Athens, Illinois; Forkland Abraham Lincoln Museum, Forkland, Kentucky; Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, Petersburg, Illinois: Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial, 705 Spitler Park Drive, Mt Zion, Illinois; Lincoln State Park, Lincoln City, Indiana.

(Yes, there are a lot of Lincoln Sites. Most of these guys are not so fondly memorialized. And even Lincoln is not as popular as he used to be. According to one Wikipedia page, visitors to the house in Springfield fell from 650,000 a year in the late 1960s to 393,000 in the early 2000s, while those to the village in New Salem fell by half over the same period. The same page claims that visits to the Memorial in Washington peaked at 4.3 million in 1987 and have since declined, though it does not give current figures, and estimates given by other web sources varying wildly, from as low as 3.5 million up to 6 million).

Ann Rutledge (1813-1835): BP: near Henderson, Kentucky. Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Petersurg, Illinois.

Raymond Massey (1896-1983): BP: 519 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Buried: Beaverdale Memorial Park, New Haven, Connecticut. College: Balliol (Oxford).

John Drinkwater (1882-1937): Abraham Lincoln (1918). BP: Dorset Villa, 105 Fairlop Road, Leytonstone, London, England. Buried: Churchyard, Piddington, Oxfordshire, England.

John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865): BP: Tudor Hall, Bel Air, Maryland. Buried: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.

William Faulkner (1897-1962): The Sound and the Fury (1929), Sanctuary (1931), Absalom, Absalom (1936), Requiem For a Nun (1951). BP: Jefferson & Cleveland Streets, New Albany, Mississippi. Buried: Oxford Memorial Cemetery, Oxford. Rowan Oak, Oxford, Mississippi; Union County Heritage Museum, 114 Cleveland Street, New Albany, Mississippi.

Absalom: BP: Hebron, Israel. Buried: Tomb of Absalom, Kidron Valley, Jerusalem, Israel. (I am aware that this supposed tomb dates from about 1,000 years after Absalom's death, but in matters of such antiquity, especially where no authentic sites associated with the person can be expected to have survived, I allow longstanding tradition to be accepted as if truth). 

Samuel: BP: Ramah (modern Er-Ram), Israel.

George Eliot (1819-1880): Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861). BP: South Farm, Arbury Estate, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Buried: Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London, England (*****9-9-96*****).

James M Barrie (1860-1937): The Admirable Crichton (1902), Peter Pan (1904), Dear Brutus (1917). BP: 9 Brechin Road, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Buried: Cemetery, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. College: Edinburgh.

Virgil: (70-19 B.C.): The Aeneid (29-19 B.C.). BP: Andes (Mantua), Lombardy, Italy (*****3-2-97*****). Buried (trad.): Salita della Grotta 20, Naples, Campania, Italy.

Aeneas: Troy, Turkey (Trojan Horse).

Anchises: Dardania (Troas) (Mt Ida), Turkey. Buried: Mt Eryx (Monte San Giuliano), Sicily, Italy.

Dido: BP: Tyre, Lebanon. Carthage, Tunisia.

Mezentius: (unknown)

Aesop: Aesop's Fables (6th century B.C.). Samos, North Aegean, Greece.

Phaedrus (15 B.C.-50) BP: Pydna, Central Macedonia, Greece.

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Ethan Frome (1911), The Age of Innocence (1920). BP: 14 W 23rd Street, New York, New York. Buried: Cimitiere des Gonards, Versailles, Ile-de-France, France. The Mount, 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) The Age of Reason (1795). BP: 6 Thomas Paine Avenue, Thetford, Norfolk, England. Original Burial Site: Thomas Paine Cottage Museum, 20 Sicard Avenue, New Rochelle, Westchester, New York.  Thomas Paine's Cottage, 20 New Street, Sandwich, Kent.

King James I (1566-1625) BP: Edinburgh Castle, Edinurgh, Scotland. Buried: Westminster Abbey (Henry VII vault), Westminster, London, England.

Anne Bronte (1820-1849) Agnes Grey (1847). BP: 74 High Street, Thornton, Yorkshire, England. Buried: St Mary's Churchyard, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire, England.

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) Beyond the Horizon (1920), The Emperor Jones (1920), Anna Christie (1921), Desire Under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (1928), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), All God's Chillun Got Wings (1932), Ah, Wilderness! (1933). BP: Broadway & 43rd Street, New York, New York (*****2-  -98*****). Buried: Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk, Massachusetts (*****8-3-96*****). Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site (Tao House), Danville, Contra Costa, California. Monte Cristo Cottage, 325 Pequot Avenue, New London, Connecticut.

George M Cohan (1878-1942) BP: 536 Wickenden Street (Corner of Governor), Providence, Rhode Island. Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York. Statue, Times Square, New York, New York.

Willa Cather (1876-1947) Alexander's Bridge (1912), The Professor's House (1925), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1926) BP: Route 50, Gore, Virginia. Buried: Old Burial Ground, Jaffrey Center, New Hampshire (*****11-25-11*****). Willa Cather State Historic Site, 413 N Webster, Red Cloud, Nebraska. College: Nebraska.

Washington Irving (1783-1859) The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819-20), The Alhambra (1832). BP: 131 William Street, New York, New York. Buried: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester, New York. Sunnyside, West Sunnyside Lane, Tarrytown, Westchester, New York. Washington Irving Trail Museum, 3918 S Mehan Road, Ripley, Oklahoma.

The Alhambra, Granada, Andalusia, Spain.

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) Monsieur Beaucaire (1900), Penrod (1914), Alice Adams (1921). BP: Indianapolis, Indiana. Buried: Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana. Kennebunkport Maritime Museum, Ocean Avenue, Kennebunkport, Maine. College: Princeton.

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Through the Looking Glass (1872). BP: Glebe Farm, Morphany Lane, Daresbury, Chesire, England. Buried: Cemetery, Guildford, Surrey, England. Lewis Carroll Centre, All Saints Church, Daresbury, Cheshire, England. College: Christ Church, Oxford.

Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) BP: Bayswater, London, England. Buried: London, England (ashes in wife's grave, location unknown?).

Susan Glaspell (1882-1948) Alison's House (1930). BP: Davenport, Iowa. Buried: Snow Cemetery, Truro, Barnstaple, Massachusetts. College: Drake.

Eva Le Galliene (1899-1991) BP: 42 Doughty St, Holborn, London, England. Buried: Rock Outcropping (?), Weston, Connecticut.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) BP: Emily Dickinson Museum, 280 Main Street, Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts.*****(7-31-13)***** Buried: West Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts.*****(7-31-13)*****

John Dryden (1631-1700) The Conquest of Granada (1670), All For Love, or The World Well Lost (1678). BP: Opposite All Saint's Church, Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England. Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England. College: Trinity, Cambridge.

Antony (83-30 B.C.) BP: Rome, Italy. Buried: near Alexandria, Egypt.

Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.) BP: Alexandria, Egypt. Buried: near Alexandria, Egypt. Cleopatra Needles (3): Victoria Embankment, Westminster, London, England. Central Park, New York, New York. Place de la Concorde, 8me Arr, Paris, France.

Augustus Caesar (69 B.C.-14 A.D.) BP: Rome, Italy. Buried: Mausoleum of Augustus, Campus Martius, Rome, Italy. Domus Augusti, Palatine Hill, Rome, Italy.

Actium (Battle Site): Actium, Epirus, Greece.

Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) All Quiet on the Western Front (1929). BP: Osnabruck, Lower Saxony, Germany. Buried: Ronco Cemetery, Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland. Erich Maria Remarque Friedenszentrum, Markt 6, Osnabruck, Lower Saxony, Germany.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Henry VI, Parts 1,2 and 3 (1591-2), A Comedy of Errors (1592), Richard III (1593), The Taming of the Shrew (1593),  A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595), Richard II (1595), Romeo and Juliet (1595), The Merchant of Venice (1596), Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (1596-7), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597), Henry V (1599), As You Like It (1599), Julius Caesar (1599), Twelfth Night (1600), Hamlet (1602), All's Well That Ends Well (1602/3), Othello (1604), Macbeth (1605), Antony and Cleopatra (1606), King Lear (1607),  Coriolanus (1608), Cymbeline (1610), The Tempest (1611) BP: Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England*****(6-30-01)***** Buried: Parish Church, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England*****(6-30-01)*****

Seat of Count of Rousillon: Perignan, Langudoc-Rousillon, France

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) All the King's Men (1946) BP: Third & Cherry Streets, Guthrie, Kentucky. Buried: Willis Cemetery, Stratton, Vermont*****(7-30-13)***** College: Vanderbilt.

Huey Long (1893-1935) BP: Winnfield, Louisiana. Buried: Grounds of New State Capitol, Baton Rouge Louisiana. Huey Long Museum, Old State Capital Building, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Tom Jones (1749), Amelia (1752) BP: Sharpham Park (house), Sharpham, Somersetshire, England. Buried: British Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal.

Henry James (1843-1916) The American (1877), The Bostonians (1886), The Awkward Age (1899) BP: 21 (Plaque at 29) Washington Place, New York, New York (*****2-25?-98*****) Buried: Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts (*****8-3-96*****) Lamb House, West Street, Rye, Sussex, England.

Edward Bok (1863-1930) The Americanization of Edward Bok (1920) BP: Den Helder, Netherlands. Buried: Bok Tower Gardens, Lake Wales, Florida.

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) Sister Carrie (1900), An American Tragedy (1925) BP: 318 South 2nd Street, Terre Haute, Indiana (House now located in Fairbanks Park). Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California.