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East Baltimore and Highlandtown figure in the work of Rafael Alvarez and Tim Cockey.
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Gertrude Stein and Karl Shapiro lived in Reservoir Hill
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Dickeyville, Laura Lippman's neighborhood.
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The Fitzgeralds lived in Baltimore during the early thirties at, among other places, La Paix, Towson, 1932-3 Osler Drive, which is now St Joseph Medical Center. Part of Hopkins' Wolman Hall used to be the Cambridge Arms Apartments. |
F. Scott Fitzgerald Marker, 307 Park Avenue, Baltimore.
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Edith Hamilton Marker 31 2 Park Avenue, Baltimore.
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John Dos Passos lived in Mt. Washington during the 1950s and early 60s. |
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Peabody Library, Baltimore A favorite work place for John Dos Passos. He wrote much of USA there. |
Ogden Nash married in the Chapel of the Church of the Redeemer in 1931; in 1971, his memorial service was held here.
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Edgar Allan Poe grave in the Westminster Burial Ground. Each year on Poe's birthday, the "Poe Toaster" leaves a partial bottle of cognac and three roses.
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The Poe house in Baltimore, 203 (originally #3) Amity Street.
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The Sir Moses Ezekiel statue of Poe (erected 1929) is located in the plaza of the Law School of the University of Baltimore.
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Church Home and Hospital, where Edgar Allan Poe and Lizette Woodworth Reese died and Karl Shapiro was born.
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Eutaw Place Temple. Site o fKarl Shapiro’s bar mitzvah in
1926 and his first marriage in 1945 |
 
A plaque marks the spot (at the Baltimore World Trade Center) where the ship Exodus 1947 was refitted. The ship left Canton on Feb. 25, 1947 pier 5. The ship's travels were fictionalized by Leon Uris.
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The Johns Hopkins University early 1900s.
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Sidney Lanier monument on Hopkins campus--a lecturer in English at Hopkins from 1879 until his death in 1881. |
Greenmount Cemetery. Walter Lord and Sidney Lanier are buried here. |
Early 1900s picture of the Baltimore Sunpapers building. Many writers have been reporters for the Sun, including Rafael Alvarez, Russell Baker, Laura Lippman, William Manchester, Sujata Massey, H. L. Mencken, Michael Olesker and David Simon. |
Continental Trust building the location of the Pinkerton office where Dashiell Hammett worked as a detective. The 1901 building survived the Baltimore fire of 1904 One Calvert Plaza. His character, The Continental Op, takes his name from the building.
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The birds from the Continental Trust Building upon which some believe that the Maltese Falcon was modeled.
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this is the former site of the Orphan’s asylum which is mentioned in The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Dashiell Hammett.
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Goucher College
Jean Baker ’61—on faculty ’72-present
Madison Smartt Bell—on faculty
Taylor Branch—on faculty 1998-2000
Laura Amy Schlitz ‘76
Elizabeth Spires—on faculty |
 The Johns Hopkins University
Jean Baker MA ‘65/Ph.D ‘71
Russell Baker ‘47
John Barth ’51/MA ’52, 1973-95—on the faculty
Madsion Smartt Bell on faculty 80’s/90s
Rachel Carson MA ‘32
Iris Chang MA ‘89
Stephen Dixon—c.1986-2007, on the faculty
Sidney Lanier 1879-81—on the faculty
Sujata Massey ‘86
Elizabeth Spires MA ’79, on faculty 80’s/90s |
Baltimore City College High School
Russell Baker ’43
Michael Olesker ’63
Karl Shapiro ’32
Leon Uris ‘42
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Gwynn Oak Park is the Baltimore amusement park which is desegregated in John Waters' Hairspray. |
Calvert Hall College High School
John Waters |
St Paul’s School for Boys
Tim Cockey |
Roland Park Country School
Josephine Jacobsen ‘26
Adrienne Rich ‘47
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Gilman School
Walter Lord ‘35 |
The Bryn Mawr School
Lucy Dos Passos ‘67
Scottie Fitzgerald (class of) ‘39
Isabel Nash Eberstadt ’51
Linnell Nash Smith (class of) ’50.
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