List of residences of American writers

Listed below are notable or preserved private residences in the United States of significant American writers. These writers' homes, where many Pulitzer Prize-winning books were written, also inspired the settings of many notable poems, short stories and novels.

Florida

Name	Image	Residence	Years	Coordinates	Notes
Katherine Ann Porter		Katherine Anne Porter House	1892–1901	Kyle	Katherine's family moved to her grandmother's house after Katherine's mother died in 1892. They lived here until her grandmother's death in 1902.
O. Henry		William Sidney Porter House	1893–1895	Austin	Best selling author of the legendary short-stories The Gift of the Magi and The Ransom of Red Chief.

Name	Image	Residence	Years	Coordinates	Notes
Frederick Douglass		Frederick Douglass National Historic Site	1877–1895	Kyle	Douglass wrote the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in this house, which he named "Cedar Hill".
Langston Hughes		Langston Hughes House, Washington D.C.	1924–1926	Washington D.C.	While living in the Italianate row house, "Hughes won his first poetry competition, and gave his first public readings. He got a contract for his first book of poems from Alfred A. Knopf in New York, finished his book manuscript, and published The Weary Blues in February 1926".