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!
Just some of our many homes...
Helen Herron Taft
2215 Wyoming Ave. NW
Helen Herron Taft
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, USA
Gil Scott-Heron
1 Logan Circle NW
Molly Elliot Seawell
1767 P St. NW, Washington, DC
Sinclair Lewis
3028 Q St. NW, Washington, DC
Sinclair Lewis
1639 19th St. NW, Washington DC
Eli Flam
11 Pinecrest Court, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Yoonmee Chang
5004 Fulton St NW, Washington, DC, USA
Mary P. Burrill
1716 17th St. NW
Mary P. Burrill
1256 Kearney St. NE
Mary P. Burrill
1758 T St. NW, Washington DC
Margaret Landon
2910 Brandywine Street NW
Margaret Landon
4711 Fulton St NW
Henry Berenger
2460 16th St. NW
Florence Jackson Stoddard
2019 N St. NW, Washington, DC
Juan Ramón Jiménez
4310 Queensbury Rd.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
2480 16th St. NW
Emily Hawthorn
1516 Q Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Emily Hawthorn
1231 W Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Julia Magruder
1906 Calvert St. NW
John Hays Hammond
2221 Kalorama Road NW
John Hays Hammond
1500 Rhode Island Ave. NW
Neil Merton Judd
1732 G Street NW, Washington, DC
Neil Merton Judd
1734 U Street NW, Washington, DC
Neil Merton Judd
1903 15th St. NW, Washington, DC
Neil Merton Judd
1808 I Street NW, washington, DC
Neil Merton Judd
4000 Cathedral Ave. NW
Neil Merton Judd
1433 Highland Drive, Silver Spring, MD, USA
Ellis L. Yochelson
12303 Stafford Lane
Anna Julia Cooper
201 T Street NW, Washington DC
Theodore Roosevelt
1212 18th St. NW
Theodore Roosevelt
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Theodore Roosevelt
736 Jackson Place NW, Washington, dC
Thomas Law
1252 6th St. SW
John A. Joyce
3238 R St. NW, Washington DC
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Emily Lee Sherwood (March 28, 1839)
Emily Hawthorn (March 21, 1845)
Ella Dorsey (March 2, 1855)
John Hays Hammond (March 31, 1855)
Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson (March 3, 1876)
Margaret Fishback (March 10, 1900)
Alba de Céspedes (March 11, 1911)
L. Ron Hubbard (March 13, 1911)
Lucille Fletcher (March 28, 1912)
Francis Coleman Rosenberger (March 22, 1915)
Henry Brandon (March 9, 1916)
Eugene McCarthy (March 29, 1916)
Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917)
Pearl Bailey (March 29, 1918)
Douglass Wallop (March 8, 1920)
Anne Truitt (March 16, 1921)
Shirley Graves Cochrane (March 5, 1925)
Stacy Johnson Tuthill (March 10, 1925)
Rafael Squirru (March 23, 1925)
Sandra Day O’Connor (March 26, 1930)
Judith Farr (March 13, 1936)
Jane Flanders (March 26, 1940)
James Oliver Horton (March 28, 1943)
Askia Muhammad (March 28, 1945)
Mark Wayne Craver (March 3, 1956)
Venus Thrash (March 30, 1959)
