We're delighted to announce our latest update which brings our total of documented writers to 203 and photo-documented houses to 228, double our original count. With this major update, we continue to highlight DC writers known and forgotten.

Famous writers such as: Tallulah Bankhead, Art Buchwald, Katherine Graham, Ulysses S. Grant, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth are featured.

Lesser known gems include:

• Josiah Henson, whose memoir was the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin
• proto-graphic novelist Don Marquis, (whose house by all rights should not have survived between massive high-rises)
• Helen Churchill Candee, Titanic survivor and World War I nurse to Ernest Hemingway
• Spy ring breaker and Bambi translator Whittaker Chambers
  

We also document more recent literary losses including Maxine Combs, Carlos Fuentes, Larry L. King, Anne Truitt, Gore Vidal and Reed Whittemore.

In addition you'll find new neighborhood categories where ten or more writers once resided and new categories for writers who were diplomats, musicians, composers, translators, visual artists and spies!

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If you know of any other writers homes not included here please contact us.

"Area Writers Uncover D.C.'s Bookish Past" The Washington Post
"Roald Dahl Typed Here" Washington City Paper
"A Tour of DC Writers Homes" Huffington Post
"Art Talk with Kim Roberts" NEA Art Works
"Poet Dan Vera Finds a Home in Brookland" Ward 5 Heartbeat

We've also been featured in the following blogs: Borderstan, Curbed, Examiner, Live Write Live, MetaFilter, Mondo DC, New Columbia Heights, Park View, DC , Prince of Petworth, Red Weather Review