This project documents the homes of literary authors who once lived in the greater Washington, DC region. We wanted to honor the widest range of literary authors possible, including authors of different backgrounds, writing styles, and influences. We include novelists, poets, playwrights, and memoirists. We do not include writers who were solely journalists, and, with few exceptions, authors of genre literature. We have tried hard to include authors from a range of time periods, from the city’s founding in 1800 through the present.
Recent Additions
What’s New?
We got a great review in the Washington City Paper in August 2020, calling our project “an online database of more than 300 writers and their D.C. homes [that] offers a glittering who’s who of Washington literary history.”
Our official relaunch celebration took place on November 29, 2018. After a decade of implementing this project independently, co-editors Kim Roberts and Dan Vera were pleased to celebrate the project’s new permanent home. Sponsored by HumanitiesDC, this updated version of the website features a responsive design easily navigable by desktop or smartphone users. They have promised to continue and preserve our research on writers’ homes in perpetuity.
HumanitiesDC is one of 56 state humanities councils and the capital’s local affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
With our latest additions, we are now documenting the homes of 383 writers who lived and wrote in the greater Washington, DC region!
Featured Author
Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy
Kennedy is the author of the memoir True Compass (posthumously published in 2009), as well as the nonfiction books America Back on Track (2006), In Critical Condition: The Crisis in America’s Health Care (1972), and Decisions for a Decade (1968). He also author a children’s book, My Senator and Me: A Dog’s-Eye View of Washington, DC (2006), and published a compilation of his political speeches, Our Day and Our Generation (1979).
Kennedy served in the U.S. Senate (D-MA) from 1962 to 2009, where he was famed for his oratorical skills, and his work on behalf of laws to improve health care, education, and immigration reform. Among other honors, he was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom, an honorary knighthood from the United Kingdom, twelve honorary degrees from universities, and a Nansen Refugee Award from the United Nations.
Just some of our many homes...
Reed Whittemore
4526 Albion Rd.
Reed Whittemore
1518 28th St. NW
Florence Jackson Stoddard
2019 N St. NW, Washington, DC
Lilian May Miller
1458 Columbia Rd. NW
Zenobia Camprubí Aymar
4310 Queensbury Rd.
Zenobia Camprubí Aymar
2480 16th St. NW
Robert Rice Reynolds
1 2nd Street Northeast, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, USA
Alain Locke
1326 R St. NW, Washington, DC
Alain Locke
1309 R St. NW, Washington DC
Marita Bonner
1805 2nd St. NW, Washington DC
Marita Bonner
2201 2nd St. NW, Washington DC
Floyd Dell
1851 Ingleside Terrace NW
Floyd Dell
6307 Lone Oak Dr.
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
2340 S St. NW
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
1404 21st Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Juan Ramón Jiménez
4310 Queensbury Rd.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
2480 16th St. NW
Elinor Wylie
1707 N St. NW, Washington, DC
Elinor Wylie
2153 Florida Ave. NW
Paul Wellman
400 Shepherd St NW, Washington, DC, USA
Ed Cox
1920 S St. NW Washington DC
Ed Cox
1301 15th St. NW, Washington DC
Ed Cox
11345 Saratoga Ave. NE, Washington DC
Charles Warren Stoddard
300 N St. NW, Washington, DC
Helen Hayes
1909 8th St NW
Helen Hayes
1418 W St NW,, Washington DC
Helen Hayes
1436 W St., NW, Washington DC
Betty Friedan
2022 Columbia Rd. NW
Emma Willard
1305-1315 30th St. NW
Margaret Truman
4701 Connecticut Ave NW
Margaret Truman
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Paul Claudel
2460 16th St. NW
Fletcher Knebel
4832 Langdrum Lane, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
Fletcher Knebel
1528 Wiscasset Road, Bethesda, MD, USA
Hervé Alphand
2221 Kalorama Road, NW
David Kresh
601 North Carolina Avenue SE
Cicely Angleton
4814 33rd Road North, Arlington, VA, United States
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Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779)
Charlotte Forten Grimké (August 17, 1837)
Charles Warren Stoddard (August 7, 1843)
Anna Julia Cooper (August 10, 1858)
Florence Bailey (August 8, 1863)
Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867)
Mabel Cornish Bond (August 24, 1867)
Paul Claudel (August 6, 1868)
Herbert Hoover (August 10, 1874)
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876)
Mary P. Burrill (August 1, 1881)
Evalyn Walsh McLean (August 1, 1886)
Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (August 31, 1887)
Conrad Aiken (August 5, 1889)
Maria Martins (August 7, 1894)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896)
Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897)
Ezra Taft Benson (August 4, 1899)
Courtland Darke Baker (August 23, 1899)
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (August 18, 1900)
Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905)
Julia Child (August 15, 1912)
Edward Weismiller (August 3, 1915)
James Tiptree, Jr. (August 24, 1915)
Ben Bradlee (August 26, 1921)
Edwin Palmer Hoyt (August 5, 1923)
Russell Baker (August 14, 1925)
Blanca Varela (August 10, 1926)
Rod Jellema (August 11, 1927)
Ann McLaughlin (August 29, 1928)
Vasily P. Aksyonov (August 20, 1932)
Vernon Jordan (August 15, 1935)
John Phillips (August 30, 1935)
Hugo Black (August 19, 1937)
John Elsberg (August 4, 1945)
Nan Fry (August 6, 1945)
Hilary Tham (August 20, 1946)
Tim Dlugos (August 5, 1950)
Chasen Gaver (August 7, 1953)