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Mary Hunter Austin – Carlinville, Illinois

Mary Hunter Austin & Blackburn College—a kinship in the desire to walk about unhampered and forge meaningful connections. #LiteraryLandscapes by Karen Dillon & Naomi Crummey.

Booth Tarkington – Indianapolis, Indiana

Booth Tarkington & North Meridian St.—striving for beauty and dignity amid the turmoil of this past year. #LiteraryLandscapes

Gwendolyn Brooks – Chicago, Illinois

Gwendolyn Brooks & South Side Community Art Center—looking back toward Bronzeville: Brooks’s voice above the hum. #LiteraryLandscapes

Aldo Leopold – Baraboo, Wisconsin

Aldo Leopold’s Writing Shack—the “land ethic” of a converted chicken coop, feeding the soul in Sand County. #LiteraryLandscapes by Marc Seals.

James Emanuel – Alliance, Nebraska

Two generations finding “my truth and my refuge” at the Alliance Public Library. #LiteraryLandscapes by Sean Stewart.

Norbert Blei – Sister Bay, Wisconsin

Norbert Blei & Al Johnson’s—fikasugen, “Counter Culture,” and the longing for public spaces.

Maya Angelou – Stamps, Arkansas

Maya Angelou & the memorial at Lake June—“picturing the red clay that Maya Angelou once walked across, imagining the breeze she once breathed.”

Sandra Cisneros – Chicago, Illinois

Humboldt Park—where the condo that replaced the house on Mango Street “has an attenuated look, seeming to both belong and not belong.”

S.E. Hinton – Tulsa, Oklahoma

S.E. Hinton & Crutchfield—Tulsa’s part in “a story about boundary lines, divisions that we create and perpetuate.”

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt – North Bend, Ohio

Though Piatt’s writing seems “sweet and peaceful,” it “proves to be like ‘the depths of a dark river,’ ‘shadowy and terrible.’”

Willa Cather – Taos, New Mexico

Willa Cather & the mesa outside Taos, New Mexico—where “the desert is everything and nothing. God without men.”

Willa Cather – Red Cloud, Nebraska

Willa Cather & the Pavelka Farmstead—where, writes Christine Pivovar, “I could imagine myself as one of Ántonia’s daughters, kneading the dough for kolaches.”

Willa Cather – Omaha, Nebraska

Willa Cather & Glacier Creek Preserve—where the grass “reflects the fire of a Great Plains sunset.”

Willa Cather – Jaffrey, New Hampshire

Willa Cather & the Old Burying Ground of Jaffrey, New Hampshire—where she was, finally, “dissolved into something complete and great.”

Willa Cather – Chicago, Illinois

Willa Cather & the Fine Arts Building—a respite from the “blur of smoke and wind and noise” in the capital of the Middle Empire.

Kurt Vonnegut – Indianapolis, Indiana

KURT VONNEGUT The Kurt Vonnegut Museum & LibraryIndianapolis, IN By Laura Beadling Like many, I found and loved Kurt Vonnegut somewhere in my miserable teenage years. Slaughterhouse-Five is now one of my favorite novels to teach, whether in Great American Books or...

Ted Kooser – Seward County, Nebraska

TED KOOSER Gravel RoadsSeward County, Nebraska By Matt Miller For all his stature as former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser remains a poet of Nebraska, and so he is a poet of gravel roads. Consider “So This Is Nebraska,” his best-known poem about his home...