Literary Maps: Real Maps for Imaginary Places
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Novelists and storytellers have for centuries sketched maps of their fictional worlds -- or the real world where their fictional characters resided -- as a means of expanding their creations and deepening the sense of a new world for readers. The Library preserves dozens of famous examples, from first editions of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" to William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County.
Posted in: Geography and Map Division, Illustrated Books, LCM, Manuscripts, Maps, Writers