How writers lived: A look at the houses of literary lions

Inside Ernest Hemingway’s home library at Finca Vigia near Havana, Cuba.

Ernest Hemingway dines with guests at Finca Vigia in Cuba. Located on 12 acres near Havana, the museum still contains original furniture, artwork, china, animal trophies, guns, clothes, typewriters and Hemingway’s library.  (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum / AP)

Ray Bradbury in his dining room in 2000.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Edgar Allan Poe attended the University of Virginia and stayed in its dorm rooms.

Edgar Allan Poe attended the University of Virginia in 1826. His room, No. 13, is on The Range, a strip of coveted rooms that still house students. A glass door allows visitors to see Poe’s room furnished as it would have been in his time -- with the addition of a stuffed raven.   (Dan Addison / Associated Press)

William Faulkner bought this Greek Revival house in Oxford, Miss., in 1930 and named it Rowan Oak. A decade after his death, his daughter sold the property to the University of Mississippi, which has preserved it as a museum.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Mark Twain and his wife built this house in Hartford, Conn., and lived there from 1874 until 1891. The bright stripes on the exterior are nothing compared with the riot of color and pattern on the inside. The home is now a museum open to the public.