Literature in Massachusetts

This sculpture memorializes the town's connection to the famous horror author Edgar Allan Poe.

The American author whose "rags-to-riches" stories were popular during the Gilded Age.

America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.