Founded in 1884, the Grolier Club of New York is America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles. Named for Jean Grolier (1489 or 90-1575), the Renaissance collector renowned for sharing his library with friends, the Club’s objective is to promote the book and graphic arts. The Club maintains a research library on printing and related … Continued
Cedar Tavern was a popular gathering place for Beat Writers Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and others. The tavern closed in 2006.
The Hotel Chelsea at 222 West 23rd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, New York, New York, was host to many writers.
Central Park Mall, Mid-Park from 66th to 72nd Streets, is home to sculptures of William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns, and Fitz-Greene Halleck.
Central Park, East 74th Street, north of Conservatory Water, is home to statues of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Mother Goose, as well as one of Hans Christian Andersen.
Central Park Conservatory Garden, 5th Avenue and 105th Street, is home to a fountain group given to the children of the city in the name of Frances Hodgson Burnett (author of The Secret Garden).
The Century Association (now Club) had as members William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, Malcolm Cowley, and Archibald MacLeish.
Chumley’s is where many writers, including John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, congregated.
The Algonquin Hotel was home to the famous Algonquin Round Table, and hosted Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Robert Sherwood, George S. Kaufman, Harold Ross, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, and Franklin P. Adams. Writers who stayed there included George Jean Nathan, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg, William Saroyan, and Tennessee Williams.
American Academy of Arts and Letters has included such members as Pearl S. Buck, William S. Burroughs, Truman Capote, e.e.cummings, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Allen Ginsberg, Lillian Hellman, William Dean Howells, Christopher Isherwood, William James, Henry James, Carl Sandburg, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Thornton Wilder, and Thomas Wolfe.