Famous writers: Where did they live?
(CBS) It's summer! Or at least it will be soon. We've been confused because it's hot enough across the country that it feels like August already.
In any case, now is the perfect time to put together your summer reading list. And if you find yourself in a spot where one of your favorite authors lived, take a moment to nerd out and enjoy the places your favorite scribe may have written his most famous sentence.
Below are just a few spots where some biggest names in literature lived. (And some of them are for sale and surprisingly reasonably priced.)
Truman Capote
Capote rented the garden apartment for a decade in this enormous five-story Greek Revival townhouse in Brooklyn, according to Zillow.com. During this time he wrote arguably his most famous book, "In Cold Blood."
This home, which Capote never owned, is for sale for $15.9 million. If you've seen the 2005 movie "Capote" starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, you have an idea of what the garden apartment looked like during the time in which Capote wrote "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
William S. Burroughs
If you find yourself in the midwest this summer - or are so moved by "Cities of the Red Night" and want to get in the car and drive to Lawrence, Kan. - stop in St. Louis, Mo., to take a look at William S. Burroughs' childhood home.
Zillow.com reports the 3,700-sq.-ft. home is for sale for $587,900. Who knows what Burroughs wrote there before he became an icon of the Beat generation?
Upton Sinclair
This is just a guess: Upton Sinclair kept his home cleaner than anything he wrote about in his classic novel of the meatpacking industry, "The Jungle."
Even if you find yourself in Monrovia, Calif., you won't see the home in which he wrote that book. Sinclair lived in the home from 1942 to 1966 ("The Jungle" was published in 1906).
According to Zillow.com, "The 2,380-sq.-ft home is included on the National Registry of Historic Places as well as named a National Historic Landmark." Doesn't look as if you can buy this one, though. There's currently a pending sale on the property.
Norman Mailer
Our favorite spot on Zillow.com's list is Norman Mailer's Brooklyn home. Sure, it looks like a cabin in a yacht - which is the point - but look at all the light this place gets!
Maybe that's just the New Yorker in us coming out, but this place is bright. The carpet's green but just imagine looking out your window down on the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights and then going out for a stroll with the views of Manhattan at your feet.
Mailer lived in this home for a long time, so he may have written some of your favorite books there. In addition to writing "The Executioner's Song," "Harlot's Ghost" and "The Naked and the Dead," Mailer co-founded "The Village Voice" with Dan Wolf and Edwin Fancher.