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...
Myrna Loy
3522 P St. NW, Washington, DC
Jessie Benton Frémont
1305-1315 30th St. NW
Stanley Kunitz
19 2nd St. NE, Washington DC
Sam Lacy
1910 13th St. NW, Washington DC
Sam Lacy
775 Hobart Place NW
Emily Hawthorn
1516 Q Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Emily Hawthorn
1231 W Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Joseph Owono
2349 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Floyd Dell
1851 Ingleside Terrace NW
Floyd Dell
6307 Lone Oak Dr.
Hugo Black
212 Quaker Lane N.
David Brinkley
111 E. Melrose St.
Atanas Slavov
9011 Lindale Drive
Zahara Heckscher
1214 Irving St NW, Washington, DC, USA
Paul Jennings
721 Madison Pl. NW, Washington, DC
Paul Jennings
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Mary Church Terrell
326 T St. NW, Washington, DC
Lee Lally
4110 Emery Pl. NW
Luis Muñoz Marín
1914 Connecticut Ave. NW
Anna Julia Cooper
201 T Street NW, Washington DC
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
2009 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Octave S. Stevenson
730 24th St. NW
Erico Verissimo
3609 34th St. NW
Helen Churchill Candee
1621 New Hampshire Ave. NW
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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)
