Where famous writers and poets grew up and lived

Agatha Christie1890–1914

📍 Barton Road, Torquay, Devon TQ2 7NS, United Kingdom

Amelia Earhart1897–1908

📍 Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, 223 North Terrace Street, Atchison, KS 66002, USA

Anne Frank1942–1944

📍 Prinsengracht 263–267, 1016 GV Amsterdam, Netherlands

Anthony Bourdain1956–1973

📍 Leonia, NJ 07605, USA

Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1868

📍 Picardy Place, Edinburgh EH1 3JT, UK

Astrid Lindgren1907–1924

📍 Astrid Lindgrens Näs, Prästgårdsgatan 24, 598 37 Vimmerby, Sweden

Banjo Paterson1869–1874

📍 Illalong, near Yass, NSW 2582, Australia

Beatrix Potter1905–1943

📍 Hill Top, Near Sawrey, Ambleside LA22 0LF, UK

Bram Stoker1847–1860

📍 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, Dublin 3, Ireland

C.S. Lewis1930–1963

📍 The Kilns, Lewis Close, Headington Quarry, Oxford OX3 8JD, UK

Carl Sagan1934–1951

📍 Brooklyn, New York, USA

Charles Dickens1837–1839

📍 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX, UK

Charles Lindbergh1906–1920

📍 Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site, 1620 Lindbergh Drive South, Little Falls, MN 56345, USA

Charles M. Schulz1922–1943

📍 Snelling and Selby Avenues, St Paul, MN 55104, USA

Charlotte Brontë1820–1855

📍 Brontë Parsonage Museum, Church Street, Haworth, Keighley BD22 8DR, UK

Corrie ten Boom1892–1944

📍 Barteljorisstraat 19, 2011 RA Haarlem, Netherlands

Craig Kielburger1982–2000

📍 Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

Dante Alighieri1265–1302

📍 Casa di Dante, Via Santa Margherita 1, 50122 Florence, Italy

David Unaipon1872–1885

📍 Raukkan (Point McLeay Mission), Coorong, SA 5259, Australia

Dorothea Dix1802–1887

📍 Hampden, Maine, USA

Dr. Seuss1906–1925

📍 74 Fairfield Street, Springfield, MA 01108, USA

Dylan Thomas1914–1934

📍 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Uplands, Swansea SA2 0RA, UK

Edgar Allan Poe1846–1849

📍 Poe Cottage, 2640 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10458, USA

Elie Wiesel1928–1944

📍 Strada Dragos Voda, Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș, Romania

Emily Brontë1820–1848

📍 Brontë Parsonage Museum, Church Street, Haworth, Keighley BD22 8DR, UK

Emily Dickinson1855–1886

📍 The Homestead, 280 Main Street, Amherst, MA 01002, USA

Enid Blyton1938–1967

📍 Green Hedges, Penn Road, Beaconsfield HP9 2LW, UK

Ernest Hemingway1899–1904

📍 339 N Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302, USA

F. Scott Fitzgerald1931–1932

📍 919 Felder Avenue, Montgomery, AL 36106, USA

Fidel Castro1959–2016

📍 Punto Cero compound, Calle 232, Jaimanitas, Playa, Havana, Cuba

Franz Kafka1916–1917

📍 Zlatá ulička 22, Prague Castle, 119 00 Prague, Czech Republic

Frederick Douglass1877–1895

📍 Cedar Hill, 1411 W Street SE, Washington, DC 20020, USA

Fyodor Dostoevsky1878–1881

📍 Kuznechny Lane 5/2, St Petersburg, Russia

Gabriel García Márquez1927–1936

📍 Casa Museo Gabriel García Márquez, Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia

George Orwell1946–1949

📍 Barnhill, Isle of Jura, Argyll PA60 7XW, UK

Gordon Ramsay1971–1987

📍 Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK

Hans Christian Andersen1807–1819

📍 Munkemøllestræde 3, 5000 Odense, Denmark

Harper Lee1926–1944

📍 South Alabama Avenue, Monroeville, AL 36460, USA

Haruki Murakami1950–1968

📍 Ashiya, Hyōgo, Japan

Helen Keller1880–1888

📍 Ivy Green, 300 North Commons Street West, Tuscumbia, AL 35674, USA

Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale1844–1897

📍 Château de Chantilly, 60500 Chantilly, Oise, France

Henry David Thoreau1845–1847

📍 Walden Pond State Reservation, 915 Walden Street, Concord, MA 01742, USA

Hồ Chí Minh1890–1969

📍 Kim Lien, Nghe An, Vietnam

Ian Fleming1946–1964

📍 GoldenEye, Oracabessa, St Mary, Jamaica

J.K. Rowling1993–1997

📍 Leith, Edinburgh, UK

J.R.R. Tolkien1930–1947

📍 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford OX2 6UR, UK

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1942–1953

📍 Hammersmith Farm, 225 Harrison Avenue, Newport, RI 02840, USA

James Joyce1882–1884

📍 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin 6, Ireland

Jamie Oliver1975–1991

📍 The Cricketers, Wicken Road, Clavering, Saffron Walden CB11 4QT, UK

Jane Addams1889–1935

📍 800 S Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60607, USA

Jane Austen1775–1801

📍 Steventon, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG25 3BQ, United Kingdom

Janet Frame1931–1943

📍 56 Eden Street, Oamaru 9400, New Zealand

Jim Morrison1971

📍 17-19 Rue Beautreillis, 75004 Paris, France

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1775

📍 Großer Hirschgraben 23–25, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

John Steinbeck1902–1919

📍 132 Central Avenue, Salinas, CA 93901, USA

José Martí1853–1895

📍 Havana Old Town, Cuba

Jules Verne1882–1900

📍 2 Rue Charles Dubois, 80000 Amiens, France

Julia Child1912–1930

📍 Pasadena, California, USA

Julie Andrews1935–1950

📍 Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, UK

Julius Nyerere1922–1999

📍 Butiama, Mara Region, Tanzania

Katherine Mansfield1888–1893

📍 Katherine Mansfield House & Garden, 25 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington 6011, New Zealand

L.M. Montgomery1876–1911

📍 Green Gables Heritage Place, 8619 Cavendish Road, Cavendish, PE C0A 1N0, Canada

Langston Hughes1947–1967

📍 20 East 127th Street, Harlem, New York, NY 10035, USA

Laura Ingalls Wilder1894–1957

📍 Rocky Ridge Farm, 3060 Highway A, Mansfield, MO 65704, USA

Le Corbusier1934–1965

📍 24 Rue Nungesser et Coli, 75016 Paris, France

Leo Tolstoy1828–1910

📍 Yasnaya Polyana, Shchyokinsky District, Tula Oblast 301222, Russia

Leonard Cohen1934–1951

📍 Belmont Avenue, Westmount, Montreal, QC H3Y, Canada

Léopold Sédar Senghor1906–2001

📍 Joal-Fadiouth, Fatick, Senegal

Lewis Carroll1851–1898

📍 Christ Church, St Aldate's, Oxford OX1 1DP, UK

Louisa May Alcott1858–1877

📍 Orchard House, 399 Lexington Road, Concord, MA 01742, USA

Mao Zedong1893–1913

📍 Shaoshan Village, Shaoshan, Xiangtan, Hunan 411300, China

Mark Twain1874–1891

📍 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT 06105, USA

Martha Stewart1944–1959

📍 Nutley, New Jersey, USA

Mary Shelley1816–1817

📍 Abbey Churchyard, Bath BA1 1LY, UK

Maya Angelou1931–1941

📍 Stamps, AR 71860, USA

Michelle Obama1964–1981

📍 7436 South Euclid Avenue, South Shore, Chicago, IL 60649, USA

Millicent Fawcett1847–1929

📍 Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Oodgeroo Noonuccal1920–1933

📍 One Mile, Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), QLD 4183, Australia

Oprah Winfrey1954–1971

📍 Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA

Oscar Wilde1855–1878

📍 1 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland

Pablo Neruda1939–1973

📍 Casa de Isla Negra, El Quisco, Valparaíso, Chile

Paul Farmer1983–2022

📍 Zanmi Lasante Hospital, Cange, Haiti

Pope John Paul II1920–1938

📍 ul. Kościelna 7, 34-100 Wadowice, Poland

Rabia al-Adawiyya

📍 Basra, Iraq

Rabindranath Tagore1861–1901

📍 64 Dwarkanath Tagore Lane, Jorasanko, Kolkata 700007, West Bengal, India

Roald Dahl1954–1990

📍 Gipsy House, Whitefield Lane, Great Missenden HP16 0BP, UK

Robert Burns1759–1766

📍 Burns Cottage, Alloway, Ayr KA7 4PQ, UK

Robert Louis Stevenson1857–1880

📍 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh EH3 6HP, UK

Rudyard Kipling1902–1936

📍 Bateman's, Burwash, Etchingham, East Sussex TN19 7DS, United Kingdom

Rumi1244–1273

📍 Aziziye Mh., Mevlana Cd. No:1, 42030 Karatay/Konya, Turkey

Stan Lee1922–1939

📍 Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York, NY 10040, USA

Stephen Hawking1942–1963

📍 Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Stephen King1958–1966

📍 Durham, Maine, USA

Sylvia Plath1960–1961

📍 3 Chalcot Square, Primrose Hill, London NW1 8YB, UK

Táhirih1817–1852

📍 Qazvin, Qazvin Province, Iran

Thomas Hardy1840–1874

📍 Hardy's Cottage, Higher Bockhampton, Dorchester DT2 8QJ, UK

Thomas Merton1941–1968

📍 Abbey of Gethsemani, 3642 Monks Road, Trappist, KY 40051, USA

Toni Morrison1931–1949

📍 Lorain, Ohio, USA

Václav Havel1936–2011

📍 Rašínovo nábřeží 78, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic

Victor Hugo1832–1848

📍 6 Place des Vosges, 75004 Paris, France

Virginia Woolf1904–1907

📍 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0PD, UK

Voltaire1759–1778

📍 Château de Voltaire, Allée du Château, 01210 Ferney-Voltaire, France

W.B. Yeats1872–1874

📍 Sligo, Co. Sligo, Ireland

Walt Whitman1884–1892

📍 Walt Whitman House, 330 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Camden, NJ 08103, USA

William Morris1860–1865

📍 Red House, Red House Lane, Bexleyheath DA6 8JF, UK

William Shakespeare1564–1585

📍 Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire CV37 6QW, United Kingdom

William Wordsworth1799–1808

📍 Dove Cottage, Town End, Grasmere, Ambleside LA22 9SH, UK

Winston Churchill1874–1892

📍 Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1PP, United Kingdom

Yasser Arafat1929–2004

📍 Heliopolis (Masr el-Gedida), Cairo, Egypt