If you have a love of literature, chances are there is a tour, event, or museum devoted to the enduring legacies of American authors. Whether you are part of a social group, book club, school group, or you are an interested book-lover, there are plenty of literature tours in the United States to enjoy. Take a road-trip across the country and match 50 novels to all 50 states or focus on the homes, haunts, and museums of America’s finest writers!
Boston is known as the literary birthplace of American Romanticism, American Realism, and Transcendentalism among other movements. It’s also the base city of many famous authors who called this city home at one point or another. Take a guided tour highlighting the homes and haunts of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and London natives Henry James and Charles Dickens. Likewise, New Orleans has been known to be a popular refuge for writers like Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Kate Chopin, and playwright Tennessee Williams. Check out the many themed events around the city to celebrate these famous wordsmiths.
Other popular destinations with literary significance include Baltimore’s Edgar Allen Poe House and Museum and his original gravesite, the Emily Dickinson House and Museum tour in Amherst, Massachusetts, and a tour of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s childhood home in St. Paul, Minnesota. Visit Ernest Hemingway’s home and museum in Key West, Florida, Mark Twain’s boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, or Robert Frost’s Farm in Derry, New Hampshire.
Books become a part of us from the moment we open their pages. We all have favorite authors, and we turn to them again and again for entertainment, escaping to them as often as we can from the daily grind. The lives of some of our favorite authors are mysterious. Some wrote about their lives. Still, we often hope to learn more. These tours are designed around literary legends and can be customized in any way you want. Take a look at the itineraries we’ve built around literature.
Stop by famous bookstores like Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, and Manhattan’s Three Lives & Co. or the pubs where literary greats penned their masterpieces. See the desk where Thoreau wrote Walden and the apartment where Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind. Experience the past and step into the lives of your favorite authors with an American literary tour on your next student trip!
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Sample Itineraries
1-Day Baltimore Literature Tour
Spend your day away exploring all of Baltimore's literature-based attractions, including the famous Edgar Allen Poe's Gravesite and the Peabody Library.
1-Day ATL Lit Tour
Explore all the literary glories the South presents, with all the finest homes and libraries in the state of Georgia. Delve into the lives of Margaret Mitchell, Alice Walker, and Flannery O'Connor
2-Day New York Literary Trek
Explore the more literary side of the state of New York!
2-Day Twain Hannibal Adventure
The writings of Samuel L. Clemens, aka Mark Twain, come alive when you visit the Mississippi River and Hannibal, MO.
3-Day Minnesota Literary Getaway
This Midwestern junket lets you and your student group visit the homes and stomping grounds of renowned American authors.
3-Day Ultimate NYC Literary Landmarks
Get ready for a New York adventure of a lifetime, all based on the classic novels you love!!
3-Day DC Journalism Tour
Get ready for a whirlwind adventure through our nation's capital that shows your group all the most educational and influential journalism-related sites available!
4 Day Boston Literary Tour
Take a look at this 4 Day Boston Literary Tour and see for yourself what we have in store for you!
4-Day Laura Ingalls Wilder Tour
Pioneer woman Laura Ingalls Wilder was a fantastically talented American storyteller, whose first book was one in a series of nine detailing her life and times
4-Day Massachusetts Lit Tour
An intelligent and truly fun trek that allows you to jump into all your favorite classic novels, poems, and short stories.
5-Day Midwest Literature Tour
The Midwest is full of literary hidden gems, from Chicago's Ernest Hemingway Home to Mansfield's own Laura Ingalls Wilder House. Let us book this literary adventure for you today!
Customized Tour
Adventure Student Travel will work with you to create the trip you want for your student group.
Laura Ingalls Wilder Literature Tour
Her books are beloved by generations of readers and those who appreciate authentic stories from American culture.
