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 405 writers who lived and wrote in the greater Washington, DC region!

Featured Author

Courtland Darke Baker

Courtland Darke Baker was born in Cumberland, Maryland and educated at the University of Virginia, the George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins University. He worked as a government clerk until 1925, when he was appointed Associate Professor of English at George Washington University. He taught until his death in 1944, at age 45.

Baker is the author of The Continuity of the Literary Tradition of the Inspired Poet (1939), based on his PhD dissertation. He also published individual poems in journals and anthologies.

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Just some of our many homes...

L. Ron Hubbard

1812 19th St NW, Washington DC

Theodore Roosevelt

1212 18th St. NW

Theodore Roosevelt

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Theodore Roosevelt

736 Jackson Place NW, Washington, dC

Daoma Winston

3531 Yuma St. NW

Philip K. Dick

708 Varnum St. NW

Carter G. Woodson

1538 9th St., NW

Ruth Moore

3031 Sedgwick St. NW

Frank Carpenter

1318 Vermont Ave. NW

Murray Leinster

639 8th Street NE

Monica Hand

7 Habersham Court, Silver Spring, MD, USA

Esther Popel Shaw

111 Columbia Rd NW, Washington, DC, USA

Letitia Woods Brown

4311 18th St. NW

Jim Morrison

2320 N. Evergreen St., Arlington, VA

Jim Morrison

1327 South Glebe Road, Arlington, VA, USA

Gore Vidal

3930 Connecticut Ave NW

Gore Vidal

2660 Woodley Rd. NW

Roland Flint

3701 S St. NW, Washington DC

Roland Flint

8605 Milford Ave.

Brendan Ogg

1503 Red Oak Drive, Silver Spring, MD

John Wesley Cromwell

1439 Swann St. NW

Eli Flam

11 Pinecrest Court, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Elinor Wylie

1707 N St. NW, Washington, DC

Elinor Wylie

2153 Florida Ave. NW

Rod Jellema

4526 Avondale St, Bethesda, MD, USA

Lilian May Miller

1458 Columbia Rd. NW

Horatio King

707 H St NW, Washington DC

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Emma Willard (February 23, 1787)
Henry Lytton Bulwer (February 13, 1801)
Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813)
Frederick Douglass (February 1818)
Ellen Tarr O’Connor Calder (February 21, 1830)
Margaret Louisa Sullivan Burke (February 1836)
Henry Adams (February 16, 1838)
Jean Jules Jusserand (February 18, 1855)
Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice (February 27, 1859)
Philander Chase Johnson (February 6, 1866)
Zitkala-Sa (February 22, 1876)
Millicent Todd Bingham (February 5, 1880)
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (February 13, 1884)
Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885)
Mariano Brull (February 24, 1891)
Lillian Rogers Parks (February 1, 1897)
Luis Muñoz Marín (February 18, 1898)
Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902)
Una Marson (February 6, 1905)
St. Clair McKelway (February 13, 1905)
Dee Brown (February 28, 1908)
Selden Rodman (February 19, 1909)
Stephen Spender (February 28, 1909)
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911)
Herman Taube (February 2, 1918)
Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920)
Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921)
Margaret Truman (February 17, 1924)
Roger Mudd (February 9, 1928)
Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931)
Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy (February 22, 1932)
Roland Flint (February 27, 1934)
Martin Galvin (February 21, 1937)
Siv Cedering Fox (February 5, 1939)
Donald Britton (February 16, 1951)