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Iowa Ave Literary Walk: Flannery O'Connor

Iowa Avenue

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Iowa Ave Literary Walk: Ray Young Bear

Iowa Avenue

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Iowa Avenue Literary Walk: Kurt Vonnegut

Iowa Avenue

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Iowa Avenue Literary Walk: Mildred Wirt Benson

41.661160

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James Tate: Iowa Avenue Literary Walk

41.661086

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JOHN IRVING: IOWA AVENUE LITERARY WALK

Iowa Avenue

41.661265

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Margaret Walker's Plaque on the Literary Walk

351 Iowa Avenue

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Marvin Bell: Literary Walk Plaque

Iowa Avenue, Iowa City, IA

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Philip Levine Plaque on Iowa Lit Walk

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Tennessee Williams: Iowa Ave Literary Walk

Iowa Avenue Literary Walk

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The Old Capitol (Old Cap)

21 North Clinton Street

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Wallace Stegner: Iowa Avenue Literary Walk

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Iowa Ave Literary Walk: Flannery O'Connor

Iowa Avenue

"Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them."

Iowa Ave Literary Walk: Ray Young Bear

Iowa Avenue

Iowa Avenue Literary Walk: Kurt Vonnegut

Iowa Avenue

The Kurt Vonnegut plaque on the Iowa Avenue Literary Walk reads: ‘We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.’

Iowa Avenue Literary Walk: Mildred Wirt Benson

This is Mildred Benson’s plaque on the Iowa Avenue Literary Walk. It is located in front of the Blue Moose Taphouse on Iowa Avenue and it reads “I’m afraid there’s more to this than appears on the surface.”

James Tate: Iowa Avenue Literary Walk

JOHN IRVING: IOWA AVENUE LITERARY WALK

Iowa Avenue

John Irving's plaque on the Iowa Avenue Literary Walk reads: “To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense,” from his novel The Hotel New Hampshire.

Margaret Walker's Plaque on the Literary Walk

351 Iowa Avenue

Margaret Walker's Plaque on the Literary Walk reads "The summer then was like an idyll, a season of peace, when all the agitation of the violent world around them seemed suspended, and they felt secure." Citation: Walker, Margaret. Jubilee. Houghton Mifflin, 1966.

Marvin Bell: Literary Walk Plaque

Iowa Avenue, Iowa City, IA

Philip Levine Plaque on Iowa Lit Walk

“Instead I was born in the wrong year and in the wrong place, and I made my way so slowly and badly that I remember every single turn, and each one smells like an overblown rose, yellow, American, beautiful, and true.”

Tennessee Williams: Iowa Ave Literary Walk

Iowa Avenue Literary Walk

Tennessee Williams’ plaque on the Iowa Avenue Literary Walk reads "We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!"

The Old Capitol (Old Cap)

21 North Clinton Street

Together, Old Capitol Museum and the Museum of Natural History (next door in Macbride Hall) form the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums. Old Capitol Museum has been in operation since 1976, when the building reopened after a major renovation. It is the only National Historic Landmark in Iowa City. Throughout its long history, the building has served as a seat of the territorial and state governments, a university building serving numerous schools and colleges, administrative offices, and finally a museum. From City Guide: Iowa City by Jan Weissmiller:

Built in 1840, the Old Capitol building has been beautifully restored. The first-floor museum often features exhibits related to the Workshop. A gorgeous spiral staircase leads to the original Senate chambers, where literary events are frequently held. Recent events include a retirement celebration for long-time Iowa Review editor David Hamilton and an evening with Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey, sponsored by the Derek Project, a nonprofit organization that introduces students from the Iowa City Community Schools to a well-known author.

Wallace Stegner: Iowa Avenue Literary Walk

"All of us felt it. We must have. For in front of their gate, before we drove away still wearing their burnooses, we fell into a four-ply, laughing hug, we were so glad to know one another and so glad that all the trillion chances in the universe had brought us to the same town and the same university at the same time."