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Category: Geography and Map Division

A montage of images from the novels of John Steinbeck, including "The Grapes of Wrath."

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.