In Search Of...

No, we're not in search of the Happy Booker. We're right here where you've left us, recovering from the book release party for Grand Avenues held at our home this weekend.  75 close friends stopped by the house to party the night away and we're still picking up the pieces.  (photos posted later in the week, stay tuned!)

Today's "In Search of" comes from Beltway Quarterly editor Kim Roberts.  Can you help??

PUBLIC SCULPTURE IN DC COMMEMORATING FAMOUS AUTHORS

The most frequently depicted author in DC? Dante. Go figure. Here's a list I've compiled of outdoor sculpture of authors in our nation's capital. We're used to driving around all those circles with a man on a horse in the middle. But not all our public sculpture is of generals!

For a full list of museums, historic houses, plaques, and statuary having anything to do with authors in the greater DC area, see Beltway Poetry Quarterly.

Know of a statue I missed? Please let us know and help us with our list.

--Kim Roberts

Aleksandr Pushkin Monument
22nd and H Streets NW, George Washington University, DC.

Dante Alighieri Statue
Malcolm X Park, southwest corner. 15th and W Streets NW.

Dante Alighieri Statue
Casa Italiana, 595 1/2 Third St. NW.

Francis Scott Key Statue
M Street at 36th St. NW, near the entrance to Key Bridge in Georgetown, DC.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Statue
M Street and Connecticut Ave. NW, DC.

Khalil Gibran Memorial Garden
3100 block of Massachusetts Ave. NW, DC.

Library of Congress Busts of Eminent Men of Letters
Jefferson Building exterior. Busts of Demosthenes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wolfgang von Goethe, Washington Irving, Benjamin Franklin, Lord Macaulay, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, and Dante Alighieri.

Pablo Neruda Bust
Organization of American States, Constitution Avenue and 18th St. NW.

Rubén Darío Statue
Organization of American States, Constitution Avenue and 18th St. NW, DC.

Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz Bust
Organization of American States, Constitution Avenue and 18th St. NW, DC.

Taras Shevchenko Statue
P Street, between 22nd and 23rd Streets NW, DC.

Teresa de la Parra Bust
Organization of American States, Constitution Avenue and 18th St. NW, DC.

Comments

[Theresa]

I looked at your list on the other page, and I didn’t see any mention of the statue of Saint Jerome that is near Sheridon circle on Massachusetts Ave. He wrote translations of theology, histories, and biographies. Since his time, he has been associated with scrolls, writing, cataloging, and translations. Does that count for your list?

[Theresa]

A slight correction: He wrote AND translated theology, histories, and biographies. Please excuse my missing conjunction.

[C.M. Mayo]

I vote for Frances Hodgson Burnett!

[Carol Nation]

I enjoyed my online tour of these statues. Many were ones I had not seen, and am now putting on my list for spring rambles. Especially loved the memory jog of Meridian Hill park. I once spent quite a bit of time photographing the park. (One won an award in the Arlington County Fair photography category one summer.) Now with this memory jog, I want this spring to go and videotape my favorite scenes at Meridian Hill --- hoping there has not been too much deterioration.