This week's Friday Afternoon Challenge: Literary Landmarks!

[CTyankee]

Each of these places was the home, hangout, or imagined place of famous writers. Can you identify the writers and the places? (PM me with questions if you'd like).

Extra credit: I’ve starred the places where specific works of the authors were written, or written about. Can you correctly guess them?

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[suffragette]

1. 1) Cafe de Flore in Paris?

Sartre

[CTyankee]

2. not Sartre.

[suffragette]

3. de Beauvoir?

[CTyankee]

5. She went there but no...

[suffragette]

7. I'll give it one more try - Camus?

[CTyankee]

8. Don't think just French writers...nt

[suffragette]

10. hemingway

[CTyankee]

13. Wow, I didn't know he even WROTE there.

It's little later than Hemingway...

[suffragette]

31. I don't think he did actually

His name just kept popping in my mind.
Figured he made the rounds in Paris back in the day.

[CTyankee]

39. think later in the 20th century...what writers felt like real ex-patriats...nt

[suffragette]

42. James Baldwin?

[CTyankee]

47. Yes...what work?

[suffragette]

43. James Baldwin?

Go Tell it on the Mountain
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:vE4IXhh4YM8J:www.theparisreview.org/media/BALDWIN.pdf+James+Baldwin+cafe+flore&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh9WaKWoKnZXNUdOEYXnsFjgrNOhBfNYS0cUZoU2BjV-3V0xW2AtijKB2JIpiJM8JcyoJNPr5fTCqhL2yijjbTIE27vrR7VdX3LJfEegH7woF_kfN4iJL2r0LEpD_f0Zku1P_Bf&sig=AHIEtbRSBBYaW_i7-CaZObNW-orV6yhYxg

[CTyankee]

48. YES! You got it! nt

OK, that's # 1...

[suffragette]

49. woot! 100 guesses later...

[CTyankee]

51. I think you are in the lead with both #1 and #6.

Now if you could just crack #3...

[geardaddy]

11. Hemingway?

Although I don't know which one he wrote there.

[alfredo]

40. Truman Capote?

[CTyankee]

41. No, he wasn't really an ex-pat. These writers had a strong reason to leave the U.S.

and go to Paris...also a dancer of great renown did too...Paris loved them...

[alfredo]

44. Chaplin had to leave, though not thought of as a writer he did

Write the song "Smile."

[alfredo]

61. F Scott Fitzgerald

[geardaddy]

4. 5)

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee?

[CTyankee]

6. Spot on. Did you know that this is actually Monroeville, AL, where Lee grew up?

The set for the movie was modelled on this courtroom.

[geardaddy]

9. I didn't know that.

But just that vantage point of that courtroom reminded me of the movie.

[CTyankee]

20. Isn't it? The set designer really stayed true to this design...it's why I included it

in this challenge. It is almost iconic in American movie history...really a great thing...

[geardaddy]

12. Is 3# Poe?

[CTyankee]

14. #3?

What work of his did you have in mind?

[geardaddy]

16. Well, I'm thinking one of the following:

The Raven
Fall of the House of Usher
or
The Telltale Heart

[CTyankee]

17. Where did these stories take place? nt

[geardaddy]

18. Ummm...

in a house? lol

in Baltimore?

am I even on the right track?

[CTyankee]

19. No, you aren't. Remember, this is international...

[geardaddy]

23. OK, I'm not even familiar with this story, but

after some *cough* research, is it "The Cask of Amontillado?"

[CTyankee]

29. The story is by a 20th century author...based on a story he heard during a

particular time about a real occurance...

[CTyankee]

15. First Hint: Four countries are represented.

[Staph]

21. 2 looks like

Mark Twain's home in Hartford, Connecticut. I toured the house and museum last winter -- Twain is one of my favorite human beings (not just one of my favorite authors!).

Fun fact -- his next door neighbor was Harriet Beecher Stowe. Quite the literary neighborhood!

[CTyankee]

24. Congrats, Staph! That is correct...

[Canuckistanian]

50. I guessed that immediately

Twain once described it as "part cathedral, part cuckoo clock"

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

58. I saw it on Ghost Hunters!

:rofl:

[CTyankee]

68. The Twain House has ghosts? nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

74. Supposedly, Clement's daughter haunts the house..

http://articles.courant.com/2009-12-02/news/09120112521211_1_ghost-hunters-twain-s-daughter-mark-twain-house

:hi:

[Staph]

22. Is number 4

the Algonquin Hotel in New York? Home of the Round Table?

Of course, that represents a slew of different authors -- Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman, Robert Benchley. I seem to remember that even Harpo Marx hung out there, not so silently.

[CTyankee]

25. It sure is! I just couldn't document all the works that had been written due to their being

there...mostly, I was thinking of Dorothy Parker...

I guess the round table gave it away...

[CTyankee]

26. OK, folks. one half of #1 and 3 and 6 have not yet been identified!

WHO is the writer who wrote a famous book in #1?

Who is #3 and what is the work.

Who is #6?

Second hint: two centuries are represented.

[CTyankee]

27. Hint on #6: her husband gave her the "Chianti cure." nt

[suffragette]

28. Googling that led me to one of your posts

which gave the answer.
I never would have guessed it.

[CTyankee]

30. And it was????

[suffragette]

32. Casa Guidi

http://www.etoncollege.com/CasaGuidi.aspx
‘Casa Guidi’ is the name Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave the apartment they rented on the first floor of the old Palazzo Guidi near the Pitti Palace in Florence. After a romantic courtship and clandestine marriage, they arrived in the city as exiles in April 1847. Casa Guidi became their home throughout their marriage, and was the one centre of stability in their wandering lives. It was at Casa Guidi that Robert wrote Men and Women and Elizabeth Windows and Aurora Leigh. Their only child, Penini (‘Pen’), was born there, and Elizabeth died there in 1861.

[CTyankee]

33. She wrote Casa Guidi Windows about her experience there and the

anguish she felt about the risorgimento of Italy. She needn't have worried...it happened and it was fine..

[CTyankee]

34. So, we still don't have the author and work in # 1 and neither author nor work in #3.

Hint for #3: His book was made into a movie. This place had a dramatic episode take place in it. The cliffs had something to do with it...

[suffragette]

36. Four countries are represented ,so it can't be in the United

States, France or Italy (and I keep thinking it looks like Italy, darn it).

[CTyankee]

38. You are missing a big country...#3...you are correct in the other 3....

nt

[suffragette]

45. Should that hint make me think of an 80's pop song?

[CTyankee]

46. Not sure what you mean...cuz I'm not up on my 80s pop songs...plz???

[alcibiades_mystery]

52. Referring to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vhebiuuLqU

[suffragette]

53. "Big Country" was the band. "In a Big Country" their song

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Country

They're Scottish, though I never think of Scotland as big.

But now the darn song's stuck in my head.

[CTyankee]

54. Not Scotland...

[suffragette]

35. Didn't know that

When I think of them, I think of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush:_A_Biography

[CTyankee]

37. Very interesting! nt

[CTyankee]

56. Oops, didn't mean to give it away...but that's ok. It's kind of a cute piece of trivia...

poor dear Elizabeth was hooked on Laudenum (sp?) and Robert decided all she really needed was good Tuscan chianti...how simple is that? So out of the frying pan....

oh well, I guess you could do worse than having to drink chianti in Florence, right?

[suffragette]

59. Would love to be doing that right now

I've been to Florence, but all too briefly.

May need to rewatch "A Room with a View" tonight just for the fun of it - and, oh, it's on Netflix watch instantly.
Ah, but I'll have to make due with a glass of white wine instead of chianti.

[CTyankee]

63. Actually, I'm going to Florence in mid September on an art intensive with Trinity college

profs who teach there...there is a small group of us, hardy band that we are, lectures and lots of sitings of great art...San Marco, the Brancacci Chapel, the Duomo, the Bargello, Santa Croce, the Medici Chapels, the Palatine Gallery and of course the Uffizi...been there before but not long enough...

[suffragette]

72. How wonderful!

I so enjoyed going there though our arrival (I was married at the time) was comical.

We were in a car in summer and had taped up the windows so they would not fall down. It was about 90 outside and 110 or so in the car. We got stuck smack in the center of a bicycle race at one point (with all the bicyclists pounding on our car and cursing at us as they passed), looked for but could not find a specific hotel in Scandicci as an elderly, bemused man cranked his head from tight to left to watch us each time we circled the block, then finally made it up to Fiesole to a wonderful small hotel which had its restaurant on the top floor with full windows overlooking Florence.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesole

[malaise]

55. Great Friday thread

as usual :hi:

[CTyankee]

57. Hey, Malaise, what's your guess on #3?

I never really thought folks would miss THIS one!!!

[malaise]

60. I'm thinking of a Spanish author

hopefully the name will come shortly

[blogslut]

62. I have three guesses for #3

Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

[CTyankee]

66. Oh, damn...

As you can see, those ain't it...

I thought for sure the terrain would be enough for people to guess Spain...it just looks so Spanish to me, but I guess not to everyone.

[blogslut]

67. Oh well

I'm not well traveled and frankly, not as well read as I'd like to be. I just like guessin'. :)

[CTyankee]

69. Oh, no...blogslut, you are great...I've never read anything but Hemingway's

short stories so don't be feeling that way!

You are great. You have a wonderful eye for art and you are right on target...there will be more art challenges coming up and I'm counting on YOU to be a participant!

[suffragette]

64. #3 Hemingway

"For Whom the Bell Tolls"

edited for excited typing error

[CTyankee]

65. Looks like you are the winner!

That part of the book that describes the people suspected of sympathizing with the republicans being thrown off the cliffs in Rondo...very powerful...

How did you know it?

[suffragette]

70. I've never read it

I'm not much of a Hemingway fan.

I much prefer some of the other authors brought up in the thread.

It was more detective work than anything (and I was a lit major).

For a long time I was stuck on Italy. At one point I was sure it had to be Vidal because I kept thinking of his house up on a cliff.
Looked it up (swallow's nest) and it was beautiful, but not it.

Then I was sidetracked by my wrong-headed reading of your clue (and I still have that song stuck in my head), so for awhile I almost guessed 39 Steps, but it clearly wasn't that.

Once you ruled out Italy (and Scotland was always not really in the running), I though Spain.
That led me back to Hemingway, but for some reason I kept thinking "The Sun Also Rises" which I've also not read.
And I kept picturing Ingrid Bergman in my mind, I think because I read her bio back in the day and I think I've seen snippets of the film over the years.
Put together, I got there finally.

Always like Donne's poem though.

[CTyankee]

71. Congrats, Suffragette! Here are all the answers.

1.* Cafe de Flore Paris James Baldwin “Go Tell it on the Mountain”
2. Hartford, CT Mark Twain
3.* Ronda, Spain Hemingway (el tajo cliffs) “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
4. Algonquin Hotel NYC Dorothy Parker et al.
5. Monroeville, AL Harper Lee ( courtroom used as set model for film) “To Kill a Mockingbird”
6.* Casa Guidi Florence Italy Robert and Elizabeth Browning “Casa Guidi Windows”

[elleng]

73. Thanks for this, yank! Got here LATE!!! Looks like all had fun!

[CTyankee]

75. Yeah, this one was terrific fun. What's nice is how people share their own

experiences with the place or the author or the work. And it's a break from the relentless anger and unhappiness with politics...that gets so frustrating...for everyone.

Hope to see you next week! :hi: