The Greats of Greenwich Village: Poets, Writers, and Critics

There are few—if any—neighborhoods in the country that can boast contributing as much to American literature as Greenwich Village (and its extension, the West Village).

In this tour, we will visit the homes, apartments, and sites associated with novelists, journalists, and writers like Kahlil Gibran ("The Prophet"), Mark Twain ("The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"), Emma Lazarus ("The New Colossus"), Angela Davis ("Freedom is a Constant Struggle"), Eleanor Roosevelt ("The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt"), James Baldwin ("The Fire Next Time"), Richard Wright ("Black Boy"), Thomas Paine ("The American Crisis"), Alex Haley ("The Autobiography of Malcolm X"), E.B. White ("Charlotte's Web"), Edgar Allen Poe ("The Raven"), Margaret Mead ("Coming of Age in Samoa"), Jane Jacobs ("The Death and Life of American Cities"), Lorraine Hansberry ("A Raisin in the Sun"), and Louisa May Alcott ("Little Women").