onehundreddollars:

How Novel: 14 Literary Settings Inspired by Real Places

tragicoptimism:

thegirlandherbooks:

1. Growing up in the midwest means a field trip to Hannibal, Missouri, to see Mark Twain’s old haunting grounds—it was the highlight of my sixth-grade year. Twain has said there was no better place for a boy to grow up than Hannibal and was thus inspired to use many of the area’s landmarks in his…

TRAVEL TO ALL THE LITERARY PLACES!

Hannibal is like 20 minutes from my hometown :)

Now it’s ridden with meth-heads and other crime. Awesome, right?

But the Twain sites are still cool.

(Source: mentalfloss.com, via adefectiveidealist)