Home of Inspiration
The foundations of famous literary works can be
traced to the homes of local authors.
STORY BY CHIP R . BELL
| by the book |
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“The ache for home lives in all of us,”
wrote renowned poet Maya Angelou.
“The safe place where we can go as we are and not be
became a successful author, he bought the place, turning
questioned.” Her words capture the safety and comfort
it into a writing sanctuary.
many authors feel working in their homes.
Despite the popularity of Ernest Hemingway’s home in
Charles Dickens loved Gad’s Hill Place, an elegant
Key West, where he lived with countless six-toed cats,
house in Hingham, England, as a young boy. After he
Ernest did his best work, including “For Whom the Bell
FALL 2022 | LAKE OCONEE LIVING 13 Raymond Andrews was born to
sharecropper parents in 1934
in this rented wooden house
that sat deep in the woods of
the Plainview community near
Madison.