Elizabeth Bishop first came to Key West in the 1930s. She lived in this nineteenth-century clapboard eyebrow house at 624 White Street off and on from 1938 to 1946. In a letter to Marianne Moore she wrote: “It is very nice here; I wish so much that you and your mother could come here sometime, I am so sure you would like it. The sea is so beautiful– all spotted and striped, from dark black-blue to what my aunt calls ‘lettuce’ green.”

The 2011 Key West Literary Seminar presents dozens of today’s most compelling, thought-provoking, and funniest writers– memoirists, novelists, poets, historians, journalists, and all manner of lettered gastronome, gourmand, and epicure– to explore food and its place in contemporary literature. Click the images below for biographical information about each speaker and links to online resources.

We announce new speakers as they're added to the roster, both on this page and in Littoral, our online journal. Email your suggestions, corrections, or comments to arlo@kwls.org.

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