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作家，又称“坐家”。不论是执笔手写，还是敲键盘码字，都需要坐在房子里写作品。作家的房子犹如一部自传，暴露出游离在他们文字之外的另一面，平淡现实可触及，却不流于浅俗。跟随本文的脚步，一起来探访十大著名作家的故居，看看这些创作灵魂的所在，究竟是怎样的地方，讲述了怎样的故事呢？
A writer’s home is a kind of autobiography1， and visiting the place where a great work of literature was written gives you a deeper understanding of both the book and the person who wrote it. Here are some notable writers’ houses to check out.
1. Jack London （杰克·伦敦，美国现实主义作家，代表作《野性的呼唤》）
Besides being one of the most successful writers of his day， Jack London was also a dedicated rancher.2 London bought 1，400 acres3 near Sonoma， California and set up an experimental farm. He planted spineless cacti to feed his livestock， put in grain silos， and built a piggery so grand he called it the “pig palace.”4 You can visit the house where London lived and died， as well as the ruins of the three-story mansion5 that burned down just before he was set to move in. （The rock walls still stand in a redwood grove， not far from London’s grave.） 6
2. John Steinbeck（约翰·斯坦贝克，20世纪美国重要作家之一，代表作《愤怒的葡萄》）
Steinbeck grew up in this Victorian home and lived here as an adult in 1934 to care for his ailing mother.7 During that time， his successful novella The Red Pony was published.8 A restless child， Steinbeck never seemed comfortable with his middle-class upbringing and empathized with the migrant workers he saw in the vegetable fields around Salinas， California.9 The town appeared as the setting in many of his works， most notably East of Eden.10 Today， in addition to taking a tour， you can eat lunch in a restaurant located in what used to be Steinbeck’s parlor11.
3. Mark Twain（马克·吐温，美国著名作家，代表作《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》）
Twain spent the happiest years of his life in his house in Hartford， Connecticut， with his wife and three daughters. He wrote seven major works here， including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The house， which feels reminiscent of a Mississippi steamboat，12 cost a great deal of money and contributed to Twain’s financial problems late in life. The interior was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and has more than 10，000 objects from the Victorian era.13 There’s even a pool table14 in the study， right by Twain’s writing desk.
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson（拉尔夫·沃尔多· 爱默生，美国思想家、作家，代表作《论自然》）
Emerson lived in this house in Concord， Massachusetts for 46 years until his death in 1882， and it acted as a transcendentalist headquarters.15 Visitors like Henry David Thoreau went in and out， sometimes staying in the guest room nicknamed the “Pilgrim’s Chamber.”16 Emerson wrote his essays “Nature and Self-Reliance” in a study on the first floor， although his son later said that Emerson’s “real study” was nearby Walden Woods.17
A writer’s home is a kind of autobiography1， and visiting the place where a great work of literature was written gives you a deeper understanding of both the book and the person who wrote it. Here are some notable writers’ houses to check out.
1. Jack London （杰克·伦敦，美国现实主义作家，代表作《野性的呼唤》）
Besides being one of the most successful writers of his day， Jack London was also a dedicated rancher.2 London bought 1，400 acres3 near Sonoma， California and set up an experimental farm. He planted spineless cacti to feed his livestock， put in grain silos， and built a piggery so grand he called it the “pig palace.”4 You can visit the house where London lived and died， as well as the ruins of the three-story mansion5 that burned down just before he was set to move in. （The rock walls still stand in a redwood grove， not far from London’s grave.） 6
2. John Steinbeck（约翰·斯坦贝克，20世纪美国重要作家之一，代表作《愤怒的葡萄》）
Steinbeck grew up in this Victorian home and lived here as an adult in 1934 to care for his ailing mother.7 During that time， his successful novella The Red Pony was published.8 A restless child， Steinbeck never seemed comfortable with his middle-class upbringing and empathized with the migrant workers he saw in the vegetable fields around Salinas， California.9 The town appeared as the setting in many of his works， most notably East of Eden.10 Today， in addition to taking a tour， you can eat lunch in a restaurant located in what used to be Steinbeck’s parlor11.
3. Mark Twain（马克·吐温，美国著名作家，代表作《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》）
Twain spent the happiest years of his life in his house in Hartford， Connecticut， with his wife and three daughters. He wrote seven major works here， including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The house， which feels reminiscent of a Mississippi steamboat，12 cost a great deal of money and contributed to Twain’s financial problems late in life. The interior was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and has more than 10，000 objects from the Victorian era.13 There’s even a pool table14 in the study， right by Twain’s writing desk.
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson（拉尔夫·沃尔多· 爱默生，美国思想家、作家，代表作《论自然》）
Emerson lived in this house in Concord， Massachusetts for 46 years until his death in 1882， and it acted as a transcendentalist headquarters.15 Visitors like Henry David Thoreau went in and out， sometimes staying in the guest room nicknamed the “Pilgrim’s Chamber.”16 Emerson wrote his essays “Nature and Self-Reliance” in a study on the first floor， although his son later said that Emerson’s “real study” was nearby Walden Woods.17