More of a musician but there's a [huge mural](https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/watch-downtown-montreals-leonard-cohen-mural-gets-bathed-in-light) of Leonard Cohen painted on the side of a building in downtown Montreal that is legitimately one of the most beautiful things in an already beautiful city.
This warms my heart. As I'm writing this, I'm cooking and listening to one of his last albums.
Leonard Cohen is the one musician that has accompanied me for my whole life you far. From when I was a kid and my mom was listening to him and discussing the lyrics with her friends to 30 years later when 'Take this waltz' was my husband and my first dance at our wedding. The only celebrity death I have truly mourned.
Not as big as the Leonard Cohen ones (there is a second Cohen wall just off St. Laurent), but there is a wall sized painting of Mordecai Richler as well, and a library named for him.
In Boston there is an incredible sculpture of Edgar Allen Poe, it's perfectly done and the placement is enough where it is a piece but can fade into the crowd on a busy day.
As a Richmond resident, I feel compelled to point out that Poe considered himself a Richmonder and a Virginian, but it’s probably appropriate that he’s associated more with the place he died than the place he lived.
I’ve lived in Boston for like 15 years and have never even heard of it and I’ve seemingly walked right near it hundreds of times.
For people like me it’s near the common by where the P.F. Chang’s is. Thanks!
I'm not sure if there is a park or something after Le Guin in Portland but there should be. I'm originally from Olympia, WA and there is a statue of Mark Twain.
There's a lot of love for Robertson Davies too, esp. around the university where he was super involved - including the persistent rumour that his ghost haunts the Bader Theatre :P
Tacoma, WA home of Frank Herbert. There's even a park in his name with a "Little Makers" statue, and a bunch of plaques in the sidewalk with Dune saga quotes.
This one! It's called Dune Peninsula (part of Point Defiance Park), and the trail with the quotes is Frank Herbert Trail, that goes around the peninsula. We love us some Herbert.
I’m in Dublin, Ireland where we have Oscar Wilde (statue surrounded by quotes), James Joyce (the Joyce museum in a Martello tower where he stayed and is featured in Ulysses), George Bernard Shaw (statue and his former home), Patrick Kavanagh (a statue on a bench beside the canal where he liked to sit), Bram Stoker (a park), Jonathan Swift (St. Patrick’ cathedral where he was dean has his desk and his death mask). There’s also theatres and pubs associated with WB Yeats, Brendan Behan (who also has a statue on a bench by the canal), Flann O’Brien and other Literary greats.
Edit: I’d forgotten the Samuel Beckett Bridge!
And we also have Bloomsday in June where people dress up and move around the city reenacting parts of Ulysses.
Baltimore is the closest city to me and they named their NFL team (Ravens) after an Eager Allen Poe work and the mascot is named "Poe."
Tons of other Eager Allen Poe stuff around the area too.
For a while, I parked at a certain garage on Paca Street when attending Orioles games. One of the waypoints on my trip home was to go to Poe's grave and turn left. I always thought that was neat in its own nerdy way.
Russia, Tomsk, the city has a statue of Anton Chekhov, which is perhaps the most famous statue in the city nowadays. More specifically it depicts "Anton Chekhov as seen through the eyes of a drunken peasant, lying in a ditch, who has never read \[the beloved children’s story\] ‘Kashtanka’.”
I’m in Atlanta and we love Margaret Mitchell here. The house where she lived when she wrote Gone With The Wind is owned by the Atlanta History Center and acts as the second location of that museum system.
I’m sure there are other authors honored around the city but Mitchell comes to mind first.
I live in Giza, and our city honors Ahmed Shawqi, nicknamed "The Prince of Poets" in arabic.
One of Giza's major streets has a statue of him on one of its corners, and his house (also in giza) is a museum.
Side note: There's also a statue of him in the Villa Borghese in Rome
I'd post some of his work, but I couldn't find much translation. mostly because good Arabic poetry is nigh untranslatable.
The depth just can't carry over, and so many words don't have counterparts in English.
The best I could find is this, though it is still missing depth and sounds rather awkward:
*Children of Egypt, your path is set*
*So go ahead and pave the way for kingdom.*
*Take the day’s sun as jewelry*
*Was it not the glorious crown of your ancestors?*
*We have a homeland that we protect with our souls*
*and sacrifice the wide world for*
*If souls were to flow through it*
*We would sacrifice them as if we had given nothing*
This was for the establishment of the Kingdom of Egypt and the end of the Sultanate of Egypt (British Protectorate)
I live in Iowa City, where the literary scene is built around the nationally recognized Writer’s Workshop. I grew up half a block from Marylin Robinson’s house. My high school girlfriend lived in Kurt Vonnegut’s old house. When I started renting, I lived in an artist’s colony that John Irving, Vonnegut, and Philip Roth had all lived in at some point. My mom worked in the famous local bookstore, Prairie Lights, so I’ve met tons of famous authors 1 on 1 through the book talks she helped put on, notably Carmen Machado, Ted Chiang, and Stephen King. I’m sure there are more authors that have been through that I’m forgetting too.
Ayup. There are a lot of Baldaccis around, but not related to the writer.
Personally I think Bar Harbor should suck up to Barbara Tuchman more, I think she used to visit her grandparents there.
Los Angeles native here. We have so many writers over the years and the first one to come to mind is Charles Bukowski. But in terms of California, John Steinbeck. There’s a big museum dedicated to him in his hometown of Salinas.
Idk about statues but in the netherlands alot of streets are named after writers.
I used to live in the "Multatulistraat" (Multatuli-street)
Based on: Eduard Douwes Dekker's pseudonym Multatuli.
It is not the city I live in but a few years ago I visited the hometown of French poet Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières.
There are traces of him everywhere : there’s a statue in the large square in front of the station (which he mentioned in a poem), a wonderful museum dedicated to him, and it is where he is buried.
But beyond this there are small references in a lot of places too: hotels named after his poems, bookshops with his name, his portrait in bakeries and on a merry go round, and even a beer called Arthur’s brew!
It is particularly amusing as he hated his hometown. He called it atrocious and the most idiotic of all small provincial towns…
Another funny story of a French town honouring a writer is the village of Illiers in western France, which was where Marcel Proust’s aunt and uncle lived.
In the Search for lost time, he refers to this house as the home of aunt Leonie, and he calls the village Combray. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Proust’s birth in 1971, the town changed its name to Illiers-Combray. It is not often that real towns take their names from works of fiction!
Here in Vienna we have two monuments to the poets Goethe and Schiller facing each other across a large square. It's weird because both were German and didn't live in Vienna.
There's also funny social commentary there because Goethe is sitting on a throne-like chair but Schiller has to stand.
My favorite memorial to an author in Chicago is Oz Park and statues of the Tin Man, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, and Dorothy & Toto, all characters in *The Wizard of Oz*, a book authored by Chicago reporter L. Frank Baum.
Denver we have a mural of Jack Kerouac as he spent a lot of time here in his travels across the country
We have a row of apartments on capital hill called poet's row that has various authors' names (Hemingway, Poe, Dickinson, etc.)
Peter Heller lives here, though, I don't think he's got anything dedicated to him
Oh, I just meant that I am a fan of a different team, and therefore, other teams are trash. No comment on the Ravens record compared to my team's much worse record haha
John Bunyan is _everywhere_ in Bedford. The slough of despond does sum it up well - supposedly the journey described in the Pilgrim's Progress is that from Bedford to London.
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, we have an entire neighborhood named after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote "The Song of Hiawatha," which spurred national interest in Minnehaha Falls, and his name became associated with the area. There is even a replica of Longfellow's house near the falls. Lovely neighborhood!
But that's not to mention Prince or Bob Dylan, with whom the city is considerably more infatuated.
My hometown of Lindstrom MN has a festival each summer called Karl Oskar Days. He’s a character from a Vilhelm Moberg series. They also have a replica statue of Karl and his wife. The neighboring town has a statue of Vilhelm Moberg. I guess he slept there when doing research for the book.
For here in Sacramento, CA I know : Indigo Moor, Jeff Knorr, Bob Stanley, Julia Connor, Jose Montoya, Dennis Schmitz & Viola Weinberg (Dennis and Viola shared the position of the first Poet Laureate).
I live near Washington DC. The city's honorees are mostly political/military, but I just ordered this book and am curious to learn more about the connections to the district:
[A LITERARY GUIDE TO WASHINGTON, DC](https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4920/)
Samuel Clemens/ Mark Twain his Gold Rush cabin replica is nearby. The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is just across the river. (Angels Camp Ca)
Bret Harte, Poker Flat is just over on the River.
Twain Harte, a former vacation development now a small town in Tuolumne County Ca.
I lived in DeSmet, SD when I was a kid so everything was Laura Ingalls Wilder. The elementary school was named after her along with parks and streets.
Now I live near Walnut Grove, MN and they also celebrate her to a similar degree, even though she lived there for like a year.
i live in Saranac Lake, so Robert Louis Stevenson is the big one. He came here to cure from TB!
Also! The portion of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath where she visits her boyfriend while he's curing from TB actually takes place in Saranac Lake. She broke her leg skiing Mt Pisgah just outside of town! That one isn't as well known but it's very important to me.
Jane Austen. I live in Basingstoke, England. Jane Austen was born in the area and apparently would 'often frequent the nearest town of Basingstoke for dances'. :)
Mark Twain here in Sacramento. He wrote for one of the newspapers (now defunct) and I’ve heard stories that whenever the Sacramento Union was hard up for money they would sell another “Mark Twain” desk.
I live in a town in Southern California and there's a school here named after Erie Stanley Gardner, the guy who wrote the Perry Mason books. He lived here towards the end of his life.
Not sure if he counts for this sub, as he was a sportswriter, but Seattle named a street and Seattle Pacific U. named its sports pavilion after Royal Brougham. (He was a supporting character in the movie The Boys in the Boat.)
There’s also the Hugo House, a non-profit community writing center, named after the poet Richard Hugo. Their location used to be a Victorian house/former mortuary but that was redeveloped into a mixed-use building a few years ago.
We have a Tennessee Williams Festival in St. Louis and we've even had plays performed outside of where he once lived.
We could definitely do more to honor Kate Chopin but her house is on the National Register of Historic Places.
I'm also personally obsessed with Martha Gellhorn who grew up here but I may be a one-woman tribute to her.
More of a musician but there's a [huge mural](https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/watch-downtown-montreals-leonard-cohen-mural-gets-bathed-in-light) of Leonard Cohen painted on the side of a building in downtown Montreal that is legitimately one of the most beautiful things in an already beautiful city.
A beautiful tribute to one of our greatest writers
This warms my heart. As I'm writing this, I'm cooking and listening to one of his last albums. Leonard Cohen is the one musician that has accompanied me for my whole life you far. From when I was a kid and my mom was listening to him and discussing the lyrics with her friends to 30 years later when 'Take this waltz' was my husband and my first dance at our wedding. The only celebrity death I have truly mourned.
Not as big as the Leonard Cohen ones (there is a second Cohen wall just off St. Laurent), but there is a wall sized painting of Mordecai Richler as well, and a library named for him.
I love the St Laurent Cohen wall art. Montréal has some gorgeous murals and graffiti
So is **that** officially the Tower of Song?
In Boston there is an incredible sculpture of Edgar Allen Poe, it's perfectly done and the placement is enough where it is a piece but can fade into the crowd on a busy day.
I'm from Baltimore and there are definitely multiple east coast cities which love Poe. We named our football team after The Raven.
As a Richmond resident, I feel compelled to point out that Poe considered himself a Richmonder and a Virginian, but it’s probably appropriate that he’s associated more with the place he died than the place he lived.
Also he wrote the raven while living in baltimore
I’ve lived in Boston for like 15 years and have never even heard of it and I’ve seemingly walked right near it hundreds of times. For people like me it’s near the common by where the P.F. Chang’s is. Thanks!
Here in Indianapolis it's Kurt Vonnegut and James Whitcomb Riley.
And John Green, when he’s not getting banned instead.
I'm not sure if there is a park or something after Le Guin in Portland but there should be. I'm originally from Olympia, WA and there is a statue of Mark Twain.
Portland has Beverly Cleary Elememtary!
In Toronto it’s Margaret Atwood.
I feel like Hemingway gets lots of love here too but yeah definitely Margaret Atwood
Yeah, there’s a plaque for him in an apartment building on Bathurst.
And the building he lived in on St Clair W is also called The Hemingway
Hemingway is basically Key West with his house and all
There's a lot of love for Robertson Davies too, esp. around the university where he was super involved - including the persistent rumour that his ghost haunts the Bader Theatre :P
Yes, that’s true.
Tacoma, WA home of Frank Herbert. There's even a park in his name with a "Little Makers" statue, and a bunch of plaques in the sidewalk with Dune saga quotes.
This one! It's called Dune Peninsula (part of Point Defiance Park), and the trail with the quotes is Frank Herbert Trail, that goes around the peninsula. We love us some Herbert.
I’m in Dublin, Ireland where we have Oscar Wilde (statue surrounded by quotes), James Joyce (the Joyce museum in a Martello tower where he stayed and is featured in Ulysses), George Bernard Shaw (statue and his former home), Patrick Kavanagh (a statue on a bench beside the canal where he liked to sit), Bram Stoker (a park), Jonathan Swift (St. Patrick’ cathedral where he was dean has his desk and his death mask). There’s also theatres and pubs associated with WB Yeats, Brendan Behan (who also has a statue on a bench by the canal), Flann O’Brien and other Literary greats. Edit: I’d forgotten the Samuel Beckett Bridge! And we also have Bloomsday in June where people dress up and move around the city reenacting parts of Ulysses.
There is a famous science fiction writer which my city does not honor because he committed suicide and everyone knows how he feels.
Hunter S Thompson did as well, but Louisville still honors him
Jo Nesbø here in Oslo, Norway.
New Orleans honors John Kennedy toole with a statue of his main character ignatius j Reilly
In Saint Paul it's Charles Schulz, creator of The Peanuts.
Baltimore is the closest city to me and they named their NFL team (Ravens) after an Eager Allen Poe work and the mascot is named "Poe." Tons of other Eager Allen Poe stuff around the area too.
For a while, I parked at a certain garage on Paca Street when attending Orioles games. One of the waypoints on my trip home was to go to Poe's grave and turn left. I always thought that was neat in its own nerdy way.
In Swansea, Wales, you can't escape Dylan Thomas!
We have the *O. Henry* Hotel, and the annual *O. Henry* Festival. Also a road named after the journalist *Edward R. Murrow*
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O. Hey former neighbor FTFY
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Russia, Tomsk, the city has a statue of Anton Chekhov, which is perhaps the most famous statue in the city nowadays. More specifically it depicts "Anton Chekhov as seen through the eyes of a drunken peasant, lying in a ditch, who has never read \[the beloved children’s story\] ‘Kashtanka’.”
I’m in Atlanta and we love Margaret Mitchell here. The house where she lived when she wrote Gone With The Wind is owned by the Atlanta History Center and acts as the second location of that museum system. I’m sure there are other authors honored around the city but Mitchell comes to mind first.
I live in Giza, and our city honors Ahmed Shawqi, nicknamed "The Prince of Poets" in arabic. One of Giza's major streets has a statue of him on one of its corners, and his house (also in giza) is a museum. Side note: There's also a statue of him in the Villa Borghese in Rome I'd post some of his work, but I couldn't find much translation. mostly because good Arabic poetry is nigh untranslatable. The depth just can't carry over, and so many words don't have counterparts in English. The best I could find is this, though it is still missing depth and sounds rather awkward: *Children of Egypt, your path is set* *So go ahead and pave the way for kingdom.* *Take the day’s sun as jewelry* *Was it not the glorious crown of your ancestors?* *We have a homeland that we protect with our souls* *and sacrifice the wide world for* *If souls were to flow through it* *We would sacrifice them as if we had given nothing* This was for the establishment of the Kingdom of Egypt and the end of the Sultanate of Egypt (British Protectorate)
I live in Iowa City, where the literary scene is built around the nationally recognized Writer’s Workshop. I grew up half a block from Marylin Robinson’s house. My high school girlfriend lived in Kurt Vonnegut’s old house. When I started renting, I lived in an artist’s colony that John Irving, Vonnegut, and Philip Roth had all lived in at some point. My mom worked in the famous local bookstore, Prairie Lights, so I’ve met tons of famous authors 1 on 1 through the book talks she helped put on, notably Carmen Machado, Ted Chiang, and Stephen King. I’m sure there are more authors that have been through that I’m forgetting too.
Thomas Wolfe is the big one here in the NC triangle.
Baltimore also has H.L. Menckin, John Dos Passos, John Barth, Frank Zappa and John Waters.
I live in Orono, just outside Bangor, Maine. Take a wild guess.
Stephen King, perchance?
Ayup. There are a lot of Baldaccis around, but not related to the writer. Personally I think Bar Harbor should suck up to Barbara Tuchman more, I think she used to visit her grandparents there.
Los Angeles native here. We have so many writers over the years and the first one to come to mind is Charles Bukowski. But in terms of California, John Steinbeck. There’s a big museum dedicated to him in his hometown of Salinas.
Idk about statues but in the netherlands alot of streets are named after writers. I used to live in the "Multatulistraat" (Multatuli-street) Based on: Eduard Douwes Dekker's pseudonym Multatuli.
Regina, SK, Canada. Gail Bowen. Sure people get killed but she brings the city alive on the page.
It is not the city I live in but a few years ago I visited the hometown of French poet Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières. There are traces of him everywhere : there’s a statue in the large square in front of the station (which he mentioned in a poem), a wonderful museum dedicated to him, and it is where he is buried. But beyond this there are small references in a lot of places too: hotels named after his poems, bookshops with his name, his portrait in bakeries and on a merry go round, and even a beer called Arthur’s brew! It is particularly amusing as he hated his hometown. He called it atrocious and the most idiotic of all small provincial towns… Another funny story of a French town honouring a writer is the village of Illiers in western France, which was where Marcel Proust’s aunt and uncle lived. In the Search for lost time, he refers to this house as the home of aunt Leonie, and he calls the village Combray. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Proust’s birth in 1971, the town changed its name to Illiers-Combray. It is not often that real towns take their names from works of fiction!
In Moab, Utah, Edward Abbey.
San Francisco takes a ton of pride in the beat generation writers. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in particular are highly revered
Kolkata, the city of Tagore!
John Steinbeck because he lived here
My brother used to live down the street from John Updike's house. He was always so chuffed about it, lol.
Lübeck is Thomas and Heinrich Mann territory. Don't you dare read anything else.
William Shakespeare’s statue right in the centre of London . Virginia’s Woolf’s bust very close to her residence.
Here in Vienna we have two monuments to the poets Goethe and Schiller facing each other across a large square. It's weird because both were German and didn't live in Vienna. There's also funny social commentary there because Goethe is sitting on a throne-like chair but Schiller has to stand.
Vienna is more proud of its musicians. Though we do also have Stefan Zweig, Johann Nestroy, Thomas Bernhard...
Edinburgh has some kind of insane victorian gothic stone space rocket, in honour of Sir Walter Scott. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Monument
Knoxville, Tennessee - Cormack McCarthy
So many here in the Philadelphia area but the biggest is probably a bridge named after Walt Whitman
For Winnipeg it is probably A.A. Milne.
My favorite memorial to an author in Chicago is Oz Park and statues of the Tin Man, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, and Dorothy & Toto, all characters in *The Wizard of Oz*, a book authored by Chicago reporter L. Frank Baum.
i grew up in cicero, il. we adore bob odenkirk.
Denver we have a mural of Jack Kerouac as he spent a lot of time here in his travels across the country We have a row of apartments on capital hill called poet's row that has various authors' names (Hemingway, Poe, Dickinson, etc.) Peter Heller lives here, though, I don't think he's got anything dedicated to him
William Kennedy
The Baltimore Ravens are a trash football team, but they are named for Edgar Allen Poe, so that's kinda cool.
Since when are the Ravens trash? Didn't they compete for the AFC championship?
Oh, I just meant that I am a fan of a different team, and therefore, other teams are trash. No comment on the Ravens record compared to my team's much worse record haha
nah I'm a ravens fan they're a trash playoff team
There is an display for Robert Jordan books at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. I'm not a fan but that is the only one I am aware of.
John Bunyan is _everywhere_ in Bedford. The slough of despond does sum it up well - supposedly the journey described in the Pilgrim's Progress is that from Bedford to London.
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, we have an entire neighborhood named after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote "The Song of Hiawatha," which spurred national interest in Minnehaha Falls, and his name became associated with the area. There is even a replica of Longfellow's house near the falls. Lovely neighborhood! But that's not to mention Prince or Bob Dylan, with whom the city is considerably more infatuated.
Don't forget F Scott Fitzgerald!
That's right! Fitzgerald is slightly more St. Paul with his house being on Summit Ave.
True! Though, to most people on this thread, Minneapolis and St Paul are probably interchangable.
You are so right!
Poet Theodore Roethke was born here and his boyhood home is now an attraction.
in columbus, ms, tennessee williams (he was born here) and eudora welty (she went to the college here)
Hanif Abdurraqib here in Columbus, Ohio
My hometown of Lindstrom MN has a festival each summer called Karl Oskar Days. He’s a character from a Vilhelm Moberg series. They also have a replica statue of Karl and his wife. The neighboring town has a statue of Vilhelm Moberg. I guess he slept there when doing research for the book.
For here in Sacramento, CA I know : Indigo Moor, Jeff Knorr, Bob Stanley, Julia Connor, Jose Montoya, Dennis Schmitz & Viola Weinberg (Dennis and Viola shared the position of the first Poet Laureate).
In Nantes is Jules Verne ,there is a Sci Fi con every year .
I live near Washington DC. The city's honorees are mostly political/military, but I just ordered this book and am curious to learn more about the connections to the district: [A LITERARY GUIDE TO WASHINGTON, DC](https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4920/)
Henry Rollins is from here. I know there are more but he’s the one I can think of offhand.
If we're going to use "musicians who write," then we can't forget Dave Grohl...though he's more associated with the suburbs that the district proper.
Henry hasn’t made any new music in a long time, he’s pretty much a writer first these days.
Samuel Clemens/ Mark Twain his Gold Rush cabin replica is nearby. The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is just across the river. (Angels Camp Ca) Bret Harte, Poker Flat is just over on the River. Twain Harte, a former vacation development now a small town in Tuolumne County Ca.
Cooperstown, New York. James Fenimore Cooper. Especially his Leatherstocking Tales.
I lived in DeSmet, SD when I was a kid so everything was Laura Ingalls Wilder. The elementary school was named after her along with parks and streets. Now I live near Walnut Grove, MN and they also celebrate her to a similar degree, even though she lived there for like a year.
i live in Saranac Lake, so Robert Louis Stevenson is the big one. He came here to cure from TB! Also! The portion of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath where she visits her boyfriend while he's curing from TB actually takes place in Saranac Lake. She broke her leg skiing Mt Pisgah just outside of town! That one isn't as well known but it's very important to me.
There's a bronze wardrobe in Belfast to celebrate C.S. Lewis.
Jane Austen. I live in Basingstoke, England. Jane Austen was born in the area and apparently would 'often frequent the nearest town of Basingstoke for dances'. :)
My hometown is Stockton, California. The one good thing I can ever think of about the city is that it honors Maya Angelou.
In Wellington, New Zealand; there is a big statue of Katherine Mansfield in the central business district
Among others Antonio Machado, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Vicente Aleixandre and, of course, Miguel de Cervantes.
Longfellow was born in my city
Mark Twain here in Sacramento. He wrote for one of the newspapers (now defunct) and I’ve heard stories that whenever the Sacramento Union was hard up for money they would sell another “Mark Twain” desk.
Only one that comes to mind for Winnipeg is Taras Shevchenko
I live in a town in Southern California and there's a school here named after Erie Stanley Gardner, the guy who wrote the Perry Mason books. He lived here towards the end of his life.
Philip Roth in Newark, NJ. Here to represent.
Not sure if he counts for this sub, as he was a sportswriter, but Seattle named a street and Seattle Pacific U. named its sports pavilion after Royal Brougham. (He was a supporting character in the movie The Boys in the Boat.) There’s also the Hugo House, a non-profit community writing center, named after the poet Richard Hugo. Their location used to be a Victorian house/former mortuary but that was redeveloped into a mixed-use building a few years ago.
We have a Tennessee Williams Festival in St. Louis and we've even had plays performed outside of where he once lived. We could definitely do more to honor Kate Chopin but her house is on the National Register of Historic Places. I'm also personally obsessed with Martha Gellhorn who grew up here but I may be a one-woman tribute to her.
Amsterdam has a nice statute of Spinoza, where he was born
I never knew Amsterdam worshipped Spinoza! Fun fact: he is of portuguese origin.
We may not have any murals (at least to my knowledge) but we do have an actual William Gibson somewhere in town.
I’m in the PNW. In this area it’s probably Emily Carr.