Photos of the Graves of Writers

When my husband and I were honeymooning in New England, we discovered we were near Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, VT, where Robert Frost was buried. Robert Frost is one of the best known American poets. Frost won four Pulitzer prizes for poetry and was named Vermont's Poet Laureate in 1961. I don't think there is an American student who hasn't studied his poem, The Road Not Taken (and you 

We visited Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, NC, at first to see the grave of Thomas Wolfe (see below). Imagine my surprise when the grave of William Sydney Porter caught my eye - William Sydney Porter is the real name of the writer O Henry. His most famous work is The Gift of the Magi, a story about a poor couple who secretly work to secure Christmas gifts for each other. This story has been reint

After seeing the grave of O Henry during our visit to Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, NC, we found the grave of Thomas Wolfe. I have to wonder if Thomas Wolfe were writing today, would his style be considered too lengthy and ponderous? His writing is beautiful. He is best known for his works You Can't Go Home Again which was published posthumously, and his novel Look Homeward, Angel. Wolfe died e

Margaret Mitchell is probably the first writer you think of when you think of Atlanta. Her novel, Gone With the Wind, was published in 1936 although it took her three years to write. She received the National Book Award for 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1937, and the book was made into a movie in 1939. In 1949, Mitchell was crossing the street in Atlanta and an off-duty cab driver, wh

Flannery O'Connor is buried in Memory HIll Cemetery in the heart of Milledgeville, GA, with her parents, Edward Francis O'Connor and Regina Cline O'Connor. Her father died when Flannery was just shy of her 16th birthday. He died of systemic lupus erythematosus, the same disease that claimed Flannery's life at the age of 39. Visitors to her grave leave pennies, rosaries, peacock feathers, and once 

On a quick trip to Starkville, MS, I realized we were only 2 hours away from Rowan Oak, the home of William Faulkner. My sweet husband agreed that we needed to visit. Due to the pandemic the house was closed, but we toured the grounds, and then we drove across town to visit Faulkner's grave in Oxford Memorial Cemetery in Oxford, MS. We found many bottles of bourbon and whiskey left as tributes to