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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. 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. In A Literary Guide to Washington, DC, Kim Roberts offers a guide to the city's rich literary history. 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. 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.
About the Author
Kim Roberts is the author of five books of poems, most recently The Scientific Method. She is editor of the anthology Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC, and co-edits the literary journal Beltway Poetry Quarterly. The recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Humanities Council of Washington, and the DC Commission on the Arts, she has been a writer-in-residence at seventeen artist colonies, and her poetry has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Mandarin. Her website: www.kimroberts.org
