Writers' Retreats: Literary Cabins, Creative Hideaways, and Favorite Writing Spaces of Iconic Authors
The perfect holiday gift for bilbiophiles, avid readers, and travelers alike.

This fully-illustrated, giftable collection of inspriing global locales features over 50 writers and their getaways, offering an attractive glimpse into the creative habits of some of the greatest writers of the last two centuries.


From Henry David Thoreau's famous cabin at Walden Pond and James Baldwin's 'Welcome Table' in Provence, to Roald Dahl's garden hut and Toni Morrison's sunrise-lit couch at dawn, Writers' Retreats reveals the quirky, private, and sometimes curious places where literary magic has happened. Each location is brought to life through illustration and the writer's own words on what made that place so perfect for creating.

An exploration of famous literary writers of past and present, from Emily Dickinson and Marcel Proust to Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Alice Munro, this is the perfect bookish gift for both writers and booklovers to feed their fascination with what ignited the creativity behind their favorite works of literature.
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Writers' Retreats: Literary Cabins, Creative Hideaways, and Favorite Writing Spaces of Iconic Authors
The perfect holiday gift for bilbiophiles, avid readers, and travelers alike.

This fully-illustrated, giftable collection of inspriing global locales features over 50 writers and their getaways, offering an attractive glimpse into the creative habits of some of the greatest writers of the last two centuries.


From Henry David Thoreau's famous cabin at Walden Pond and James Baldwin's 'Welcome Table' in Provence, to Roald Dahl's garden hut and Toni Morrison's sunrise-lit couch at dawn, Writers' Retreats reveals the quirky, private, and sometimes curious places where literary magic has happened. Each location is brought to life through illustration and the writer's own words on what made that place so perfect for creating.

An exploration of famous literary writers of past and present, from Emily Dickinson and Marcel Proust to Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Alice Munro, this is the perfect bookish gift for both writers and booklovers to feed their fascination with what ignited the creativity behind their favorite works of literature.
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Writers' Retreats: Literary Cabins, Creative Hideaways, and Favorite Writing Spaces of Iconic Authors

Writers' Retreats: Literary Cabins, Creative Hideaways, and Favorite Writing Spaces of Iconic Authors

by Neil Burkey
Writers' Retreats: Literary Cabins, Creative Hideaways, and Favorite Writing Spaces of Iconic Authors

Writers' Retreats: Literary Cabins, Creative Hideaways, and Favorite Writing Spaces of Iconic Authors

by Neil Burkey

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Overview

The perfect holiday gift for bilbiophiles, avid readers, and travelers alike.

This fully-illustrated, giftable collection of inspriing global locales features over 50 writers and their getaways, offering an attractive glimpse into the creative habits of some of the greatest writers of the last two centuries.


From Henry David Thoreau's famous cabin at Walden Pond and James Baldwin's 'Welcome Table' in Provence, to Roald Dahl's garden hut and Toni Morrison's sunrise-lit couch at dawn, Writers' Retreats reveals the quirky, private, and sometimes curious places where literary magic has happened. Each location is brought to life through illustration and the writer's own words on what made that place so perfect for creating.

An exploration of famous literary writers of past and present, from Emily Dickinson and Marcel Proust to Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Alice Munro, this is the perfect bookish gift for both writers and booklovers to feed their fascination with what ignited the creativity behind their favorite works of literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781623545109
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Publication date: 10/26/2021
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile: 1330L (what's this?)

About the Author

Neil Burkey was raised in Illinois and writes in Dublin, Ireland, finding retreats wherever he can. He has had several short stories published in the Dublin Review and Guts magazine, and received a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2015. His essays have appeared in the Irish Times and the UK Independent. This is his first book, although in his role as an editor he has worked on titles for the European Court of Justice in Strasbourg, the Bush Theatre in London and Merton College in Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

1 Home from Home 8

Emily Dickinson

Marilynne Robinson

Edith Wharton Alice Munro

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jack Kerouac Margaret Atwood

Marcel Proust

Herman Melville

Judith Kerr

2 Sanctuary in the City 44

(Samuel) Dashiell Hammett

Ray Bradbury

Honoré de Balzac

Arthur C. Clarke

Franz Kafka

Toni Morrison

Sylvia Plath

William Faulkner

Maya Angelou

3 Alone in the Crowd 72

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

Allen Ginsberg

J. D. Salinger

J. K. Rowling

Willa Cather

F. Scott Fitzgerald

4 Garden Domain 92

George Bernard Shaw

Virginia Woolf

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Roald Dahl

Charles Dickens

Martin Amis

5 The Solace of Nature 112

Anton Chekhov

Henry David Thoreau

George Orwell

Norman Mailer

Dylan Thomas

Rudyard Kipling

Jack London

Beatrix Potter

Salman Rushdie

William Wordsworth

6 Breaking Away 142

William Burroughs

Henry James

Ernest Hemingway

Zora Neale Hurston

James Baldwin

James Joyce

Gore Vidal

World Map of Writer Locations 166

Bibliography 168

Writers' Retreats You Can Visit 172

Index 173

Picture Credits & Acknowledgments 176

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