Today we have the seventeenth entry in our ongoing series: Whose House is This? This one is pretty obscure, so we’ll start off with a hint: Not a politician this time. A well-regarded author.
[Update: This one seems to have my “astoot” readers stumped. So let’s up the ante. Guess Whose House, and win a free Super Ten Finger Stepper from Sippican Cottage Furniture, in your choice of colors. You can guess as many times as you like, but only one name per comment, please]
Whose House?
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It smacks of the midwest to me, and I was thinking of America's favorite Hoosier, Kurt Vonnegut
Hoo boy, I get to play.
Hmmm……must approach this logically (and quickly find a way to cheat!)
Cedar trees. Snow. Wooded ridge running in the back.
Looks kinda western North Carolina/eastern Tennessee-ish to me, 'cept for the fact that is too much snow for that area. But it depends on when the picture was taken. NC/TN could get that much snow, but it wouldn't happen with any consistency. Damn unknowns, blasted variables…..
I'd immediately go all in with Pulitzer Prize winner and master of the biographical form, Douglas Freeman, but that's way to obscure, even for me.
Soooo, I'm gonna stay with my original geographical hunch and say that Thomas Wolfe once lived in that house, and that house is presently somewhere near Ashville, NC, banking on the higher areas around Asheville getting an unusually large amount of snow that year.
The other Andy
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Dagnabit and drat….
I just Wikipedia'd Thomas Wolfe and they have a picture of his house…..
And that ain't it.
Ok, ok……
Let's try Eliot Wigginton of Foxfire fame. And I'll shut up now.
The other Andy again
http://www.smokingtoaster.com
And not the venerable Clint Eastwood of Firefox fame?
Sippican, you gave it away! "Well-regarded author!" Who else could it be but Dan Brown! That was easy. (I was gonna try to run with the whole symbology-in-the-picture theme, but it would have been a long trip for a small joke)
These "Whose House" things are like crack to me. Or those weird Mexican salted prunes that they call candy. Let's get some input, people! Papa needs clues!
I'm gonna go for a wild, wild guess… Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Could be New England. How about Updike.
Ring Lardner
It is New England! Not those scribblers, though.
L Frank Baum?
Arthur Miller?
Ok. Now I'm going to toss out my favorite author even though I know it's wrong: Paul Gallico. (He's a New Yorker—is New York considered New England?)
Edith Wharton
Phil
guessing, in Va Beach
Emily Dickinson
I'm guessing Herman Melville. It looks like Pittsfield in the Berkshires
John Irving?
Jack Kerouac?
Stephen King?
David Mamet?
salinger
Greg Sullivan
That "J said" was Johnny Glendale…
and my last, longest shot guess…Willa Cather?
Dr. Suess.
Solzhenitsyn
Thornton Wilder?
I've done a fair bit of searching and come up with nothing. It's not even the Sippican's house – not enough trees for Mass. It has to be someone modern though — the house is much too new to be turn-of-the-century, for example. In addition, the house is not huge and fenced off — meaning probably not a smash bestseller like Stephen King or John Grisham.
All that to say – I don't know.
I guessed Solzenhitzen because he was exiled in Vermont. Still, I figure he would have been in a swankier place than that.
Agree on age – must be 20th century or late 19th. Can't find nuttin' what matches, though.
Ahem- Someone has come up with the correct answer. I'll announce the winner tomorrow.