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New England Literary Tours

See sites related to some of the following authors – Ann Hutchinson, Cotton Mather, Phyllis Wheatley, Thornton Wilder, Margaret Sydney, Robert Frost, James Russell Lowell, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, E.E. Cummings, Saul Bellow, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The Old Manse – Home to both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Family, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

We can also visit the homes of Henry David Thoreau (including Walden Pond), Ralph Waldo Emerson, David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Patricia Cornwell, Greg Maguire, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, John Updike, Isaac Asimov, Joe Haldeman (sci-fi), Herman Melville, Alan Lightman, Noam Chomsky, David Allen Sibley, and Rudyard Kipling (yes, the author of Gunga Din) – he wrote his Jungle Books while living with his American wife at their home in southern Vermont, near the Massachusetts border.

Please note that it is impossible to see all of these homes in one day, though we are happy to customize your tour so that you see just what you would like.