Scarlet Slept Here: A Book Lover's Guide To The South

From Vampire Lestat's spicy New Orleans to Scarlett's Atlanta, "Scarlett Slept Here" brings the reality of literature home with a tour of the literary south. Photos & maps.

The American South, with its rich literary heritage of writers such as Margaret Mitchell, William Faulkner, and Harper Lee, has always been a fascinating and exotic place to visit. Here is a guide that matches places in fiction to real places in the South. Now it is easy to make the imaginative leap to travel in actuality to the terrain of favorite books and authors, whether the canebrakes of Yoknapatawpha County or the streets of Savannah.

John Grisham, Flannery O'Connor, and Anne Rice are but a few of the writers whose locales are explored in this delightfully lighthearted travel guide, which is filled with information about pop reads, such as Silence of the Lambs, and more important works, such as To Kill a Mockingbird. In addition to a selective listing of local accommodations and restaurants, Joy Dickinson provides tour schedules with a provocative literary appeal. From the Vampire Lestat's spicy New Orleans to Scarlett's Atlanta, Scarlett Slept Here brings the reality of literature home with warm Southern hospitality.