Five Houses of Famous Writers we long to own.

Words. How we love them here at Prose. Writers, too and all there is about them. And then thee’s famous writers and where they bled on pages. The homes of the people that we have revered, respected and read throughout our lives. So without further ado, ladies and gentleman, let’s gaze at five houses of some of the classic writers and authors that have shuffled off their mortal coils.

#1 — Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wharton combined her insider’s view of America’s privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She also had a large house.

#2 — Evelyn Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books, as well as a journalist and reviewer of books. His works include the early satires Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust, the novel Brideshead Revisited and the WWII trilogy Sword of Honour. Nice pad, Ev!

#3 — Mark Twain was an extremely well know American author and humorist. Among his writings are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called “The Great American Novel”. We’ve seen his writing hut, now look at that pile!

#4 — Robert Graves was a famous as you can get English poet, novelist, critic and classicist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works. Making his living from writing, this was his rather lovely house in Majorca.

#5 — Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American novelist. His first nine novels were in Russian, and he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose; with the controversial Lolita being his most famous novel in English. Looks like controversy bought a decent amount of bricks and mortar back then.

Well, we hope you enjoyed your glimpses of the trappings of being a famous and evidently, rich writer. If you want to share your words and read those of other writerly types, then you should get over to theprose.com or download the app for free. Join us and write without judgement or censorship.

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