collection: birthplaces of famous authors
started by pete_nice
edgar rice burroughs birthplace
from edgar rice burroughs, tarzan posted in literature by corporate_sunshine
The writer/creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars was born at this address on September 1, 1875.
The fourth son of Civil War veteran and businessman Major George Tyler Burroughs (1833–1913) and his wife Mary Evaline (Zieger) Burroughs (1840–1920), Edgar Rice Burroughs attended several schools in the area until he left Chicago because of the influenza epidemic for his brother's ranch on the Raft River in Idaho.
In the ensuing years, Burroughs was a soldier in the Arizona Territory, performed ranch work, and worked for his father's firm. In 1911, he was working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler and was reading a great deal of pulp fiction. It was at this point that he decided to begin writing.
As he stated: "...if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines."
view full location details...ernest hemingway birthplace
from ernest hemingway posted in literature by pete_nice
Ernest Hemingway was born in this home on July 21, 1899 to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway (a physician) and Grace Hall-Hemingway (a musician).
The family lived in the home until Ernest was six years old, in the same conservative community as architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
In 1992, the home was purchased by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, who redesigned the home to reflect the period of the Hemingways residence. Today, the home is open for tours and features many artifacts from the family's life there.
view full location details...jack kerouac’s birthplace
from jack kerouac posted in literature by speedy_dee
Jean-Louis "Jack" Kérouac was born in the second story apartment of this house on March 12, 1922 "at five o’clock in the afternoon of a red-all-over supper time” (from Doctor Sax, published 1959).
His parents were French Canadians, Léo-Alcide Kéroack and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque, of St-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup in the province of Quebec, Canada. Jack spoke French exclusively until he was seven years old.
view full location details...charles bukowski’s birthplace
from charles bukowski posted in literature by prof_improbable
Born to an American soldier father and a German mother, Charles Bukowski started life at this location as Heinrich Karl Bukowski on August 16, 1920. Although his family left for America in 1923, Adernach still features the home with a plaque marking the site. There is a group trying to rent out the first floor of the home to make a Bukowski museum. The photo is Bukowski revisiting his birthplace.
view full location details...philip k. dick’s birthplace
from philip k. dick posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
Philip K. Dick and his fraternal twin sister Jane were born six weeks prematurely in this Chicago apartment on December 16, 1928. Jane would die not long after in January of the next year.