A Literary Traveler's Guide to the Gulf South

From high-rise casinos to sleepy fishing villages, from sandy beaches to swamps and sprawling oaks, explore where writers lived and wrote and visit the places that inspired them. This travel guide highlights more than fifty towns along the Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida coasts popular with over a hundred writers, poets, and playwrights, including Pulitzer Prize winners, a U.S. Poet Laureate, and bestselling authors. The picturesque driving tour spans 350 miles following the coastal highways south of the interstates. The book offers legends and lore, the history, fascinating details on authors and their works, plus driving directions to literary landmarks, homes, and museums. There’s a road trip playlist and 20 sidebars with topics ranging from city walks and festivals to nature preserves and island excursions plus seven day trips, including ones for poetry lovers and children, along with recommendations of what to see, eat and read on the adventure.