A Literary Guide to Washington, DC: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston, Hardcover/Kim Roberts - University of Virginia Press

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The site of a thriving Literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation\'s most acclaimed writers.
About the Author: Kim Roberts is a freelance Literary historian, writer, and editor living in Washington, DC..
Written for tourists, Literary enthusiasts, amateur historians, and armchair travelers, A Literary Guide to Washington, DC offers a cultural tour of our nation\'s capital through a Literary lens.
The book\'s stimulating tours cover downtown, the Le Droit Park and Shaw neighborhoods, Lafayette Square, and the historic U Street district, bringing the history of the city to life in surprising ways.
She wraps up her tour with World War I and the Jazz Age, which brought to the city some Writers at the forefront of modernism, including the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Sinclair Lewis.
Starting with the city\'s earliest years, Roberts examines Writers such as Hasty-Pudding poet Joel Barlow and "Star-Spangled Banner" lyricist Francis Scott Key before moving on to the Civil War and Reconstruction and touching on the lives of authors such as Charlotte Forten Grimk and James Weldon Johnson.
Part Walking tour, part anthology, A Literary Guide to Washington, DC is organized into five sections, each corresponding to a particularly vibrant period in Washington\'s Literary community.
In A Literary Guide to Washington, DC, Kim Roberts offers a Guide to the city\'s rich Literary history.
from the city\'s founding to the beginnings of modernism, Literary luminaries including Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Henry Adams, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston have lived and worked at their craft in our nation\'s capital.
The site of a thriving Literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation\'s most acclaimed writers