Bibliograph

A literary guide to Washington, DC, walking in the footsteps of American writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston, Kim Roberts

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A literary guide to Washington, DC, walking in the footsteps of American writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston, Kim Roberts

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A literary guide to Washington, DC

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1011011966

Responsibility statement

Kim Roberts

Sub title

walking in the footsteps of American writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston

Summary

"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 ... Part walking tour, part anthology, [this book] is organized into five sections, each corresponding to a particularly vibrant period in Washington's literary [history]"--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Beginnings, 1800-1861: Portraits -- Joel Barlow -- Francis Scott Key -- Michael G. Shiner -- Anne Lynch Botta -- The Civil War era, 1861-1865. Walking tour 1: Walt Whitman's downtown: Portraits. John Burroughs -- Solomon G. Brown -- Charlotte Forten Grimke -- Reconstruction, 1865-1878. Walking tour 2: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Dunbar-Nelson in Ledroit Park: Portraits. Frederick Douglass -- Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The Gilded Age, 1870-1910. Walking tour 3: Henry Adams in Lafayette Square: Portraits. Mark Twain -- Ambrose Bierce -- Elinor Wylie -- The Jazz Age, 1920-1930. Walking tour 4: Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance along U Street: Portraits. Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Sinclair Lewis -- Jean Toomer -- Zora Neale Hurston

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