Literary Map of Princeton, Google Streetview Edition
This decade-old, illustrated map of literary Princeton shows exactly where in Princeton famous authors and poets had lived at some point in their lives. For privacy reasons, the map doesn't contain any drawings or addresses of the homes of authors who were living in town at the time. Current faculty were represented by campus buildings. Household names like Toni Marrison, Paul Mundoon, and JCO have arrows pointing to 185 Nassau Street, East Pyne is associated with John McPhee, Robert Fagles, and Clarence Brown, and F. Scott Fitzgerald points to Cottage Club.Here's a contemporary (and somewhat creepier) tour that includes what some of the homes on the original map look like now. If you don't know some of the writers, the names are very google-able.14 Alexander StreetT.S. Elliot resided in the modest home, with the two white columns, on the left.William Faulkner lived in this odd, flattened house at 85 Elm Rd.Thomas Mann (Death in Venice) hung out in this beautiful home at 65 Stockton Street.For 1 Evelyn Place, we have Hermann Broch (Austrian writer, The Death of Virgil) and Erich Kahler from Prague. Broch passed away in New Haven while Kahler chose Princeton as his final resting place.Poet John Berryman lived in what are now grad student apartments on Prospect Ave. Hopefully with friends?Allen Tate, a poet of the American South, at 16 Linden Lane, out of his natural habitat.Caroline Gordon, novelist and literary critic, had lived at 145 Ewing Street.You can complete the tour on Google Maps, or go for a run and find the homes yourself. Maybe inspiration will strike as it did these great writers. *Note: the addresses that the Google Streetview images read do not necessarily match the ones I've listed - just a glitch! They are the right homes we're looking it!This map was made by Aaron S. Madsen, Class of 1994, for the Council of the Humanities, where it remains.am CORRECTION: As of 2/34, 1:30 AM - "enormous house on Prospect" was changed to "what are now grad student apartments." Please excuse the error.