Buffalo Lit

468 Delaware,Buffalo NY 14202

22 May, 2021

Description

The story of 5 authors' lives in Buffalo and how the city helped to shape them and their writing as well as how they helped shape the city. This tour takes approximately an hour and a half and consists of seven stops in the Allentown area. The stops tell the story of William Wells Brown’s introduction to the Abolition movement and his first forays in writing and lecturing during his 9 years in the city, Mark Twain’s time with a Buffalo Newspaper where he ultimately decided that novel-writing was his next step, Marion De Forest’s career as one of Buffalo’s first female journalists and popular playwright, Anna Katherine Green’s life as the Mother of the Detective Novel and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Buffalo childhood.